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" So far, and I admit that I haven&amp;#039;t seen most of them, but the ABC renegade submarine drama Last Resort is the best new show of the fall television season, and the reason for that is Andre Braugher, who is going to go down in history as one of the finest television actors of his time. Wire me no Wires, his Jesuit-educated, &amp;quot;King of The Box&amp;quot; Frank Pembleton in Homicide is David Simon&amp;#039;s finest character, which is saying a great deal. Here, he&amp;#039;s Marcus Chaplin, the commander of the nuclear submarine Colorado, who gets an order to nuke Pakistan that Chaplin regards as unacceptably hinky. Chaplin refuses to launch his missile, prompting someone in the U.S. government to try and sink the Colorado with a cruise missile, whereupon Chaplin sails into the harbor of an island on which there is a NATO listening post, commandeers the station, and then informs his superiors back inside the Beltway that any attempt to dislodge him will result in his opening fire on the homeland. (He&amp;#039;s only had one episode, and \u2014 spoiler alert! \u2014 he&amp;#039;s already dropped a nuke in the north Atlantic.) He has to cope with a rebellious SEAL team, a local drug lord, and a rat&amp;#039;s nest of ill-defined corruption back in Washington, where somebody wants to start a war. But the most intriguing thing about it is that Braugher seems to be actively considering setting up a little fiefdom of his own on the island. (There&amp;#039;s a lot of talk about how &amp;quot;things used to be&amp;quot; in the U.S. that edges uncomfortably close to areas explored by the neo-fascist 24.) However, if there&amp;#039;s one actor I&amp;#039;d like to watch wrestle with the temptation to become a dictator, it&amp;#039;s Braugher. And, of course, there is the submarine, always one of the great stages within which to stage a military drama. Which leads us to today&amp;#039;s hooley down in comments \u2014 to wit, what is the greatest submarine movie of all time? Das Boot is the obvious default choice, but my opinion of that one always has been colored by my having seen it with my father, who did two years of convoy duty in the Atlantic and whose sympathies for the lads on the U Boat were not vast. As always, here are my top three. And, anyway, play nice, ya bastids, or I&amp;#039;m sending you into the Box with Frank Pembleton, who&amp;#039;ll get you to confess to having killed the apparently soon-to-be exhumed Mr. Hoffa. 1) The Enemy Below: Cat-and-mouse with an American destroyer and a German submarine, seen from both points of view, with first-rate performances by Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens. Extra points for being the template for the great Star Trek episode, &amp;quot;Balance of Terror,&amp;quot; in which we see the Romulans for the first time. 2) Das Boot: Because, for about a month afterwards, I was unable to ride in any conveyance smaller than a coal barge. 3) Crimson Tide: Very similar to the plot of Last Resort, except that skipper Gene Hackman and XO Denzel Washington are on opposite sides of how hinky the launch order is. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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