Gray Lady Down (1978)

Gray Lady Down is a pretty conventional, pretty boring movie about efforts to rescue the crew of a Navy submarine that sank after running into a Norwegian freighter off the eastern seaboard. Charlton Heston is the sub's Captain, Stacy Keach his boss, while David Carradine and Ned Beatty are the Navy misfits who just might pull the darn thing off. The movie is competently put together, and had I not felt as though I'd seen this kind of thing so many times before, or if it had some unique hook or conceit or something I might have liked it. Mostly this is only mildly interesting video wallpaper, perfect for multi tasking. **