Holden is cast as Commander White, who during an enemy attack orders that his submarine dive to avoid destruction[3] and thereby loses the captain of the boat on the last day of World War II. The bulk of the movie follows his career in the Navy after the war as his doubt and guilt wear on his marriage. Then, just as he is about to resign from the Navy to escape the ghosts of his past, the Korean War begins and concludes as an action thriller.
