The first true B-movie entry into our randomized journey through the Criterion Collection starts with a mushroom cloud of a bang. Spencer Gordon Bennett's The Atomic Submarine (1959) follows the intrepid crew of the US Navy Submarine Tiger Shark as it sails to the North Pole to hunt down a mysterious extra-terrestrial threat. That's right: it's U.F.O.'s underwater! Is this film classic schlock, a long-hidden treasure, or something more sinister and... unnatural?

If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother (1927).