Ten days before the start of WWII, Graf Spee, Germany's famed warship under the leadership of Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch), attempts to halt Allied merchant shipping in the South... more
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1956's The Battle of the River Plate is their penultimate film together (the following year's Ill Met By Moonlight was the last). Shot in a semi-documentary style...
1956's The Battle of the River Plate is their penultimate film together (the following year's Ill Met By Moonlight was the last). Shot in a semi-documentary style...
...the true story of the battle which was the Royal Navy's first victory of World War II. In December 1939 three cruisers, Exeter, Ajax and Achilles, under the command of Commodore Henry Harwood, were sent to intercept the German pocket battleship Graf Spee which had been sinking Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic. After a fierce gunfight off the coast of Uruguay, the Graf Spee retired to the nearby port of Montevideo for repairs. As Uruguay ... ...Battle Of The River Plate will never win anyone's Best Film award but is a hugely enjoyable waste of two hours. In real life Langsdorff, a broken man, shot himself days after his ship was scuttled. This is not depicted in the film. ...
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Actor(s): John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, Ian Hunter, Kenneth More
Director(s): Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Genre: War
Classification: Universal
Production Year: 1956
Running Time: 1 hour 54 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: Documentary-style account of the trapping, in 1939, of the German battleship 'Graf Spee' in the South Atlantic by three British cruisers.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): ITV DVD; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 17/03/2003
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: 37115 04143
Barcode: 5037115041432
Screenwriter: Michael Powell, Arnold Pressburger
Producer: Michael Powell
DVD Description
Ten days before the start of WWII, Graf Spee, Germany's famed warship under the leadership of Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch), attempts to halt Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic. After a defeated allied craft manages to radio its coordinates before sinking, British naval forces begin playing a cat-and-mouse game with the feared German warship, leading to Langsdorff and his crew hiding out in Montevideo.
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Sound: Mono
Dubbing Sound: Mono English
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