...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 ...
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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'sThe Battle of the River Plateis their penultimate film together (the following year'sIll Met By Moonlightwas the last). Shot in a semi-documentary style tha...
Production Year: 1962 - War - Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance
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Production Year: 1956 - War - Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Noel Coward, David Lean, Anthony Asquith - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal