"politically unreliable" in Hungary. After a few weeks he managed to escape and went into hiding. Jürgens became an Austrian citizen after the war. The destroyer escort USS Haynes (DE-181) was represented in the film by the , provided by the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. Many of the actual ship's crew appear in the film; such as the phone talkers, the gun and depth charge crews, and all of the men seen abandoning ship. The Whitehursts commanding officer Lieutenant Commander Walter Smith played the engineering officer. He is the man seen reading comics (Little Orphan Annie) during the lull before the action while an enlisted man is reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The Whitehurst was sunk as a target in 1971. The real DE-181 was , a (scrapped 1974). Filming Despite being set in the South Atlantic, filming took place in the Pacific Ocean near Oahu, Hawaii. Music The tune sung by the U-boat crew on the ocean floor between depth-charge attacks is from an 18th-century march called "Der Dessauer Marsch," known by the first line of lyrics as "So leben wir" ("That's how we live"). The burial hymn in the final scene is "Ich hatt' einen Kameraden." Awards and nominations For the audio effects, Walter Rossi received the 1958 Academy Award for Best Special Effects. The film was also awarded as the best sound-edited feature of 1957 by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. In popular culture The 1966 Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror" is closely based on the film, with the USS Enterprise cast as the destroyer and the Romulan vessel, using a cloaking device, as the U-boat. Nicholas Meyer has cited the film as an inspiration for The Wrath of Khan. The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "Killers of the Deep" reused substantial amounts of footage from the film. David Hedison (then Al Hedison), who played Lieutenant Ware, the executive officer of the Haynes, also played Commander Lee Crane on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. In the 1995 film Crimson Tide, two USS Alabama officers debate about the cast of The Enemy Below. See also List of American films of 1957 USS Borie (DD-215) the real U-Boat Destroyer story References Rayner, D.A., The Enemy Below, London: Collins 1956 External links 1957 films 1957 war films American war films Films based on British novels Films directed by Dick