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Jimbuna
10-26-06, 07:44 AM
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that what def looks like a type VIIB Uboat (bow mounted net cutter) etc. in the film actually fires a stern salvo of two eels at Mr Mitchums boat in the early part of the film ?

I don't usually look for film gaffs ie; the Land Rover on the hillside in Zulu or the wristwatch on the charioteer in Ben Hur.

But if it is a type VIIB...didn't they only have one aft tube? :hmm:

(hides back under his rock for fear of being mistaken) :o
Syxx_Killer
10-26-06, 08:23 AM
Yes, VIIBs only had one stern tube. The interior of the U-boat in that movie was also quite inaccurate.
kylania
10-26-06, 08:30 AM
Bah! No video stores near by have this movie. :( Yet they have 50 billion copies of I Already Knew What You'll Always Do Every Summer or whatever.
Rhodes
10-26-06, 08:55 AM
Saw that movie, the all u-boat is wrong, the modell and the interior, but since its 1957 we have to give a break. The movie was already "head time" because they portrait the u-boat commander and the captain of the destroyer as men of ducty and not has men of hate and hard nazi. The interior was a model of a american sub,with a few alterations. I think that they want to portrait a type IX. They also have radar and they are near the us coast I think...so possibly drumbeat mission boat?
Also the decoy of the sub its "cute"... after I saw it i thought that this film deservs a remake just to put the u-boat correct , the story no change.

But there is on worst, with the u-boat being all wrong and the commander is always dress with the uniform of normal days etc. But that movie is form 1943 so...ehehe.
Jimbuna
10-26-06, 08:59 AM
Bah! No video stores near by have this movie. :( Yet they have 50 billion copies of I Already Knew What You'll Always Do Every Summer or whatever.

ROFLMAO :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Sailor Steve
10-26-06, 10:25 AM
The interior was a model of a american sub,with a few alterations. I think that they want to portrait a type IX.
Gee, I thought the interior looked like a regular room in a building with some u-boat stuff thrown in.

The original book was written by a British captain, and the surface ship was a Flower-class corvette.
Rhodes
10-26-06, 10:58 AM
The interior was a model of a american sub,with a few alterations. I think that they want to portrait a type IX.
Gee, I thought the interior looked like a regular room in a building with some u-boat stuff thrown in.

The original book was written by a British captain, and the surface ship was a Flower-class corvette.

Ehhehehe, in that thinking line, almost all interior of subs in the movies are a regular room in a building with some u-boat stuff thown in, or thrown out...:D

Still for the filmakers, it easiear to get a set room of a american sub and thow in u-boat stuff that build a u-boat interior with all its splendor and details...
LZ_Baker
10-26-06, 12:52 PM
Didn't they use a US fleet boat for filming? I thought I read somewhere that they did and they added U-Boat "stuff" to it. That would explain a dual shot from the rear.
Rhodes
10-26-06, 01:10 PM
Didn't they use a US fleet boat for filming? I thought I read somewhere that they did and they added U-Boat "stuff" to it. That would explain a dual shot from the rear.

I think so.