In the Body of the Sturgeon

'In the Body of the Sturgeon' is based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem 'The Song of Hiawatha' from 1855, an often ridiculed, idyllic fantasy about the lives of indigenous Americans. The text, however, is edited (each cut in the text is marked by a jump cut in the film), and transferred to the fictitious submarine USS Sturgeon at the end of World War II. In the Kelley ...