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Sink the Bismarck!

Movie
1960
1h 37m
English
War, Action, Drama, History
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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Kenneth More
Captain Jonathan Shepard
Dana Wynter
WRNS Second Officer Anne Davis
Carl Mhner
Captain Lindemann - 'Bismarck'
Laurence Naismith
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley P...
Geoffrey Keen
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff ...
Karl Stepanek
Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
Michael Hordern
Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-i...
Maurice Denham
Commander Richards
Michael Goodliffe
Captain Banister
Esmond Knight
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
Jack Watling
RNVR Signals Officer
Jack Gwillim
Captain Wilfrid Patterson - 'King G...
Mark Dignam
Captain Maund - 'Ark Royal'
Ernest Clark
Captain Ellis - 'Suffolk'
John Horsley
Captain - 'Sheffield'
Peter Burton
Captain Philip Vian - 4th Destroyer...
John Stuart
Captain Kerr - 'Hood'
Walter Hudd
Admiral Holland - 'Hood'
Sydney Tafler
Henry - First Workman, 'Prince of W...
Sean Barrett
Able Seaman Brown
Thomas Waldron Price
Flag Lieutenant to First Sea Lord
Edward R Murrow
Himself - Edward R. Murrow
John Stride
Tom Shepard, Captain Shepard's son,...
Peter Dyneley
Commander Jenkins (uncredited)
Victor Maddern
Able Seaman Outside Admiralty (uncr...
Directed By: Lewis Gilbert
Written By: Edmund H. North (Story)

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amra2500 says...
8 months ago
Obviously the battle scenes are dated, but you don’t watch this movie for the battle scenes. You watch it for the historically accurate game of cat and mouse and what it was like at the command center, issuing them orders but only knowing half of the story.
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robinm0 says...
2 months ago
An unusual WWII film, as it focuses mainly on 'behind-the-scenes', rather than the action taking place on the Atlantic.
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Juliosoft says...
4 years ago
We see it again and it still seems like a good English movie about the hunt and sinking of the Bismarck, it wins by being focused on the war room
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FinFan says...
7 years ago
Really good war movie not totally accurate but what movie about that period was. But in a way better than many of the american war movies because it´s not dripping so much with patriotism.
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John Chard
6 years ago
Zig-Zag Patterns and the Hunt for the Bismarck.

Sink the Bismarck! Is directed by Lewis Gilbert and adapted to screenplay by Edmund North from the book written by C.S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Karel Stepanek, Michael Hordern and More
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lwpcolonel
6 years ago
**l like "Sink the Bismarck!" enough to have watched it every year or so since its release in theaters in 1960. First on T.V., then VHS and finally DVD about 17 years ago. This is another film, like the "Battle of the Bulge", where different (simplified/fictionalized) other than historically correct More
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