...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. ...
pinkmatchstick 03.02.2007
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