Run Silent, Run Deep
DramaWar
6.9/10
|US
|en
|93 min
Release Date: 1958-03-27
Overview - The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.
Production Companies
Jeffrey Pictures Corp.Hill-Hecht-Lancaster ProductionsUnited Artists
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
This superior wartime submarine story is about an American captain (Gable) who seeks to avenge the loss of an earlier ship to a Japanese destroyer by perfecting a very difficult "bow shot" technique that would enable him to torpedo this fast moving enemy head on. Burt Lancaster portrays his popular XO who ought, originally, to have had that command but has been passed over; and the film depicts th...
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