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Title: Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
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Captain Shepard
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Anne Davis
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| Carl Möhner | ... |
Captain Lindemann
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Maurice Denham | ... |
Commander Richards
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Captain Banister
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Jack Watling | ... |
Signals Officer
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Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Release Date:
11 February 1960 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Coulez le Bismarck! See more »Box Office
Budget:
$1,330,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Captain Jonathan Shepard: [walking into broad daylight] Great heavens! It's nine o'clock in the morning! And I asked you out to dinner.
Anne Davis: We could always make it breakfast, couldn't we?
Captain Jonathan Shepard: Of course.
[exeunt, passing two ratings]
Able Seaman: You know, Harvey, these boys worry me. Four stripes on 'is arm, and he don't know what time of the day it is.
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'Bernard Lee (I) (Firing Officer) played James Bond's superior M in the first eleven Bond films from Dr. No (1962) to Moonraker (1979)_ whilst Robert Brown (Gunnery Officer on George V) succeeded him in the role in Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989). See more »Goofs
In the final battle when the Bismarck's guns are out of action, you see the battleship King George V firing on it, and yet shells from the Bismarck are still seen landing next to the King George V. See more »Quotes
[last lines]Captain Jonathan Shepard: [walking into broad daylight] Great heavens! It's nine o'clock in the morning! And I asked you out to dinner.
Anne Davis: We could always make it breakfast, couldn't we?
Captain Jonathan Shepard: Of course.
[exeunt, passing two ratings]
Able Seaman: You know, Harvey, these boys worry me. Four stripes on 'is arm, and he don't know what time of the day it is.
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Kenneth More plays the severe cold and uncompromising Captain Jonathan Shepard who has lost his wife in an air raid, and whose son is a naval pilot in the warfare against the Bismarck...
'Bismarck' is a super German battleship of World War II that had a short, but spectacular career...
Captain Shepard guides the distinguished campaign from the Admiralty War headquarters in London: The search, the course, the deploy and the destruction of the Bismarck under an archetype that said: 'Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury.'
The Bismarck's admiral (Karel Stepanek) is a Nazi officer characterized by emotional instability, presumptuous and overenthusiastic...
Sighted and bombarded by British battleships, the Bismarck is incapacitated and sunk by torpedoes on the morning of May 27, 1941.
Dana Wynter is the likable attractive lady naval officer, fitting in mood and attitude...
In the climax of the film and after the naval epic, Michael Hordern, the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, turns to his men and says: 'Let's go home, gentlemen!'
This exciting sea battle would have been better on a standard screen than in CinemaScope, as its ships were clearly 'models' using newsreels footage... Nevertheless, the film is an entertaining hunt, with good acting.
Beside the search and eventual sinking of the Bismarck, I would like to mention, that the personal drama of the British sailors increase the intensity of the picture's realism...