This story does remind me of the Bond film...FOR YOUR EYES ONLY...
A fishing boat is sunk after it came into contact with an old mine...The boat actually is a British spy ship carrying some secret equipment...The mine got caught in the fishing net...
That scene of the spy ship sinking...It is a horrifying scene...Some crew members got electrocuted...One crew member tried unsuccessfully to destroy the secret equipment...
By the way, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY is a good Bond film...
LOL, I have had a tough time watching anything with Roger Moore in it after I realized how flaming he was!
About a month ago, I watched a movie “The Sea Wolves” (Not the famous “The Sea Wolf”) in which Roger Moore starred as a British military officer in WWII who was a “ladies man”. I had to keep from rolling my eyes.
Of course, I had the same reaction watching “Shogun” with Richard Chamberlain again this past year, and nearly spit when his Japanese hosts, unsure of his sexual predilections because he is turning down the girls they offer him, decide maybe he likes boys and offer him one, to which he sputters in rage “Do I look like a sodomite to you?”
Well...yeah.
I did see a review on “The Sea Wolves” which captured the movie perfectly. Based on a true story, the Sea Wolves are a geriatric impossible mission team called back to duty after 40 years of retirement with the offer of a dangerous mission that carries no hope of reward or recognition for their efforts. And they jump at the chance!
The movie itself is rather average, but the story is great fun, and more suspensible at times than one might expect. It suffers only from a decidedly 1970s made-for-television feel to the production, though the story is set in 1943. But even this drawback is ameliorated somewhat by closing credits where images of the real-life heroes from World War II are juxtaposed with those of the actors who immortalized their heroism in this film. Well worth watching.