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07-04-2011, 09:48 AM
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For the past couple of days now our local PBS station, WGBH in Boston, had been playing an old WW2 submarine action movie, Run Silent, Run Deep, starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. I'd seen it before a long time ago, but it was worth watching again. A damn fine movie! Black and white, using miniatures for action shots (long before CGI graphics), with a gripping story line and superb acting by two Hollywood legends along with an excellent supporting cast. Even the area where the bulk of the movie occurs - the Bungo Straits between Shikoku and Kyushu in Japan - is fraught with peril! A great war movie from a time when they knew how to make them. Patriotic without being preachy, which is how I like my patriotism - silent and deep! Run Silent, Run Deep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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07-04-2011, 10:05 AM
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07-04-2011, 10:22 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | LOVE me some classic war filmage! Tora Tora Tora, 12 O'Clock High, The Great Escape, The Longest Day... these will be on semi-permanent rotation in the man-cave(no DVD player in there yet).
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07-04-2011, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | Never saw the flick. The book it's based on was excellent, however.
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07-04-2011, 11:24 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: GTA | | | This is a great flick. I've seen it many times and it never gets old even in B&W.
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07-04-2011, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by bassteban LOVE me some classic war filmage! Tora Tora Tora, 12 O'Clock High, The Great Escape, The Longest Day... these will be on semi-permanent rotation in the man-cave(no DVD player in there yet). | ... The Bridge on the River Kwai ...
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07-04-2011, 12:25 PM
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Those old B&W submarine movies are great, especially the ones that always seem to have Ronny Cox as a cowardly XO who falls to pieces and ends up getting killed.
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07-04-2011, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga ... The Bridge on the River Kwai ... | Absolutely- although knowing the ending, or at least where old what's-his-name *gets it*- I can't stand this one.
The Sand Pebbles is also great.
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07-04-2011, 05:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: WA State | | | I liked The Hunt for Red October, U-571, and Das Boot the best. Also K-19, Hostile Waters, and Kelsey Grammer's Down Periscope. Below was kind of a dump plot IMO.
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07-04-2011, 05:54 PM
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07-05-2011, 03:31 AM
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07-05-2011, 07:43 AM
|  | I play the electric tuba. | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Cleveland | | | I think the name of another flick is "The Enemy Below". A really good WWII sub movie.
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07-05-2011, 07:44 AM
| | I play the electric tuba. | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Cleveland | | | And, while I'm thinking of it, "The Hunt For The Admiral Graf Spee" is a really good WWII naval movie.
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07-05-2011, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Solarmist I liked The Hunt for Red October, U-571, and Das Boot the best. Also K-19, Hostile Waters, and Kelsey Grammer's Down Periscope. Below was kind of a dump plot IMO. | Das Boot is an amazing movie. The sub captain does some great work in Beerfest as well. :P
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07-05-2011, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Tegzsa Those old B&W submarine movies are great, especially the ones that always seem to have Ronny Cox as a cowardly XO who falls to pieces and ends up getting killed. | I believe you're thinking of Gray Lady Down, although that was in color, IIRC. 
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07-05-2011, 10:50 AM
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07-05-2011, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Kawai-chang I think the name of another flick is "The Enemy Below". A really good WWII sub movie. | Another WW2 sub classic. Robert Mitchum as the US destroyer commander vs. Curt Jurgens as the U-Boat commander. A very good movie indeed! The Enemy Below - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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07-05-2011, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Kawai-chang I think the name of another flick is "The Enemy Below". A really good WWII sub movie. | I was going to add that one but two of you guys beat me to it. Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens starred. Excellent movie!
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07-05-2011, 05:28 PM
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07-05-2011, 06:34 PM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | The Bedford incident- while admittedly a *cold war* movie- was great.
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