Down to the Sea in Sets

What a nostalgic pleasure it was to read about all those old submarine movies (“In the Periscope: Submarine Standouts,” by Susan King, July 24.) And what a lot of them they’ve made! So why not make even more? It seems like all they need for one is to construct a small set out of boilerplate and pipes, then jiggle the camera, indicating near misses by depth charges, while the actors fall about and the stagehands squirt water through chinks in the bulkheads.

GEORGE WEINBERG-HARTER

San Diego