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Possibly the best of all submariner stories, about the sinking of the German battleship 'Brandenberg' by the British submarine 'Sea Tiger'.

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EAN5037115002730

eBay Product ID (ePID)3947328

Product Key Features

ActorReginald Purdell, Joan Hopkins, Niall Macginnis, John Mills, Jack Watling, Eric Portman

Aspect Ratio4:3 Full Frame

Film/TV TitleWe Dive at Dawn

DirectorAnthony Asquith

Release Year2010

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesBlack & White

GenreWar

Run Time92 Mins

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CertificateU

Number of Discs1

Additional InformationJohn Mills stars as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain, in this WWII tale of naval warfare in the Baltic. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from shore leave with their families and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi battleship Brandenburg. In the ensuing battle the submarine sustains damage from depth charges from a German destroyer. After a tense time playing dead, the sub eludes the Germans but is leaking fuel so badly that the crew will be unable to make it back to England before running out of fuel somewhere along the Danish coast. When it seems that their only option may be to blow up the submarine and try to escape to Denmark, seaman James Hobson (Eric Portman) hatches a plan. Since he speaks German he puts on the uniform of a captured German airman and goes into a small port on a Danish island in search of a tanker from which to refuel.<BR>Working from a well constructed script, Anthony Asquith, best know for adapting stage works (PYGMALION, THE BROWING VERSION), adds a strong sense of dramatic tension to the interactions between the men in the dangerous, claustraphobic atmosphere of the cramped submarine. Mills and Portman give good, realistic portrayals of men at war in this tense story of submarine warfare.

FeaturedJoan Hopkins

Format DescriptionDVD 5

Sound sourceMono

Movie/TV TitleWe Dive At Dawn