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The film's battle sequences depict this light cruiser firing her guns and torpedoes in some detail. The German raider Essen was portrayed by the minelayer HMS Manxman. The raider Essen is portrayed by HMS Manxman, a fast minelaying cruiser, fitted for the film with large mock-up gun turrets over her 4" guns. The torpedo damage which forces her ...
The 70-minute film was created at the request of the British Admiralty, as a training aid for new navigators joining the Royal Navy. Although never formally released to cinemas because of its small target audience, Handling Ships was an "Official Selection" at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival , and is recognised as the first feature-length work ...
The film stars John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Bernard Lee and Peter Finch. It was distributed worldwide by Rank Film Distributors Ltd. The film's storyline concerns the Battle of the River Plate, an early World War II naval engagement in 1939 between a Royal Navy force of three cruisers and the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
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American David Ross (William Holden), a former tugboat captain now in the Canadian Army, is hastily commissioned in the Royal Navy and assigned to rotating command of W88, a double-screwed rescue tug then in dry dock due to battle damage. His predecessor committed suicide. The slow, poorly armed tugs bring in "lame ducks," freighters crippled ...
H.M.S. Defiant (released as Damn the Defiant! in the United States [3]) is a 1962 British naval war film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale from Frank Tilsley's 1958 novel Mutiny, [4] and starring Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Maurice Denham, and Nigel Stock.
The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British war film based on the best-selling 1951 novel of the same name by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat, though the screenplay by Eric Ambler omits some of the novel's grimmest moments. The film stars Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister.