Dana Wynter was a beautiful woman.
And Prince of Wales was later sunk by the Japanese off Singapore. Along with HMS Repiulse.
Posted on 05/28/2023 2:36:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan
It's fun and easy to make fun of Hollywood's creative bankruptcy these days, and its reliance on remakes and reboots and retellings of stories it's told many times before. There are, however, some stories worth remaking; Roland Emmerich's recent Midway (2019) was as strident and bombastic as anything made by Michael Bay, but at least it put the 1976 film of the same name, a star-studded but tedious Sensurround epic, deep in the shadows where it belongs.
Like sci-fi, war films are the major beneficiaries of the digital effects revolution. Some taste and restraint are needed, of course, though they're often in short supply; Russia in particular has recently produced dozens of war films (White Tiger, T-34, Tankers, Stalingrad, The Pilot), usually with scripts of a much lower priority to the filmmakers than increasingly outlandish and improbable visual effects – tank shells in Russian pictures travel in slow motion, the camera trailing and spinning around them as they create outsized damage with impossible accuracy.
But when I see the quality and technical sophistication of films like Dunkirk (2017) and 1917 (2019), I can't help but hope that someday someone will take another shot at the story of the Bismarck, the leviathan German battleship that was the most feared ship on the ocean during the early days of World War 2, albeit only for the eight days of her first and only voyage. There is, of course, a perfectly serviceable film about the Bismarck available on streaming services and disc, but to modern eyes it looks like a relic from the days of model boats filmed in swimming pools.
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Dana Wynter was a beautiful woman.
And Prince of Wales was later sunk by the Japanese off Singapore. Along with HMS Repiulse.
I watched it not long ago. A modern film showing the Swordfish attacking would be great to see on film. Also the Hood blowing up. I still like the original though. And yes, Dana Wynter was hot.
Good flick. Trafalgar Square is now taken over-pigeons.
He was psychotic during the film.
It was really a useless battle. Had Bismarck made it to France, there would have been endless bombing attacks and either badly damaged (like Gneisenau was in Germany) or made it back to Germany with the channel dash and then travel to Norway like Tirpitz where it was a target to the end of the war limited is usefulness due to damage and lack of fuel.
I think a movie about The Graf Spee would be good.
All the young English babes working in Allied Command HQ were stupendously good-looking and elegant.
"Fire! Fire!"
"Shoot! Shoot!"
"Fire! Fire!"
With big booming noises in the background. Best war movie special effects ever, but it does require imagination instead of CGI.
Indeed it was. The age of the battleship was over, unless they were part of a battle group that provided air cover. The Tirpitz sat in a Norwegian fjord for years before the RAF finally managed to sink her.
I agree 👍
Wasn’t Tirpitz destroyed by one of the first experimental guided bombs. It was huge as well as I remember.
We got a great Sabaton song out of it. So there’s that.
Not sure about that... There was an earlier mission utilizing two-man underwater... craft... not submarines, the crew rode them in diving gear and they dropped amatol under her hull, with time delay fuses so they could get away. The explosions damaged the Tirpitz but did not sink her.
Poor Admiral Lütjens. He was just too high-strung.
The Tirpitz was damaged by the mini-sub raid. But she was sunk by bombers dropping unguided 10,000 pounder bombs. She was hit a couple of times and rolled over.
The main mission of the Bismarck was to get into the Atlantic where it was supposed to wreak havoc on the shipping.
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