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Morning Departure (released as Operation Disaster in the United States [7]) is a 1950 British naval drama film about life aboard a sunken submarine, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough.
Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the 1959 book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester.It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. [4]
Carry on Admiral (U.S. title: The Ship Was Loaded) is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and featuring David Tomlinson and Ronald Shiner. [1] Joan Hickson also made an appearance in this film and a few films in the Carry On series. [2]
Seas break over the bow of HMS Vanguard making a high speed run. Eighty thousand men, over 200 ships, and 1,000 aircraft participated in Mainbrace. The New York Times ' military reporter Hanson W. Baldwin described this NATO naval force as being the "largest and most powerful fleet that has cruised in the North Sea since World War I." [12] [13]
A list of American films released in 1950.. Fred Astaire hosted the 23rd Academy Awards ceremony on March 29, 1951, held at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.The winner of the Best Motion Picture category was Twentieth Century-Fox's All About Eve.
Berth 24 (also known as Hull Docks; re-released as Dockers at Work) is a 1950 British documentary film produced by British Transport Films and directed by J. B. Holmes. [1] The screenplay was by Montagu Slater. The musical score is by John Greenwood.
Returned to the Royal Navy in 1950, the ship was listed for disposal in 1951, but before being broken up she was hired for the Gift Horse film. For the final scenes of the film, based on her sister-ship Campbeltown's daring St Nazaire Raid , her four funnels were reduced to two, and cut down at an angle to resemble the funnels of a German ...
HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy 's battleships , [ 3 ] and the only ship of her class .