Run Silent Run Deep(movie)

[Bubblehead1980]

Rainy afternoon while visiting my grandfather, so we put in the Run Silent Run Deep DVD.One of my favorite sub movies with great acting by Gable and Lancaster(young Don Rickels too lol) and the battle scenes were not bad, esp for the era in which this movie was made.Really wish Hollywood would make a great sub movie, with all the special effects, would be great.

[raymond6751]

I had trouble believing Clark Gable, who it seemed was shaking with illness during some scenes. This may have been one of his last films. He wasn't one of my heros anyway.

The book was much better, which led me to get the dvd.

[McHibbins]

Good movie indeed which I saw several times.
A chance for him here in germany to get rid of his badass "Gone with the wind image" :D

[sharkbit]

The book was much better, which led me to get the dvd.

The book was very good along with the sequel "Dust on the Sea", followed by a pretty good cold war era "sequel", "Cold is the Sea".

I liked the movie too. Some pretty good submarine shots. The only resemblence between movie and book though was pretty much title and character names.

:)

[Ducimus]

.Really wish Hollywood would make a great sub movie, with all the special effects, would be great.


It could have Richard O'Kane as its main character. It could start in private ryan fasion with an old man aboard a muesum sub, with a "Grandpa, didn't you used to be on one of these?"... screen fades to flashback.... aboard the USS wahoo's second war patrol depicting his frustration with the current captain. Then the next patrol with Mush mouth morton proclaiming, they're all expendable. Then onto the reconitering of wewak harbor, and wahoo's other epic patrols. Then it could follow O'kane as he is transferred of wahoo to take command of the Tang. It could then show the emotional reactions at the news that the wahoo was lost, the Sea trials of the tang and the deliberate 620 foot deep dive during those trials.

Then finally showing Tangs exploits, right on upto the loss of the tang, and O'kanes eventual repatriation from POW status. We could then end this 4 part mini series in true "Saving private ryan" fashion with an old man with a sub combat pin looking tearfully at the Silent service monument at pearl harbor with his grandson.


Das boot, eat your heart out!

[JoeCorrado]

I'm all for it. We could use a great mini series about the adventures of O'kane and crew.

Might even result in a decent game release to satisfy the cheering masses, eh?

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side note:

(I am not interested in SH5 anytime soon judging from a perusal of the messages posted about it.) Maybe if we could get an OM Mod in reverse for SH5 ....on a stable game... maybe. :03:

[nikimcbee]

It could have Richard O'Kane as its main character. It could start in private ryan fasion with an old man aboard a muesum sub, with a "Grandpa, didn't you used to be on one of these?"... screen fades to flashback.... aboard the USS wahoo's second war patrol depicting his frustration with the current captain. Then the next patrol with Mush mouth morton proclaiming, they're all expendable. Then onto the reconitering of wewak harbor, and wahoo's other epic patrols. Then it could follow O'kane as he is transferred of wahoo to take command of the Tang. It could then show the emotional reactions at the news that the wahoo was lost, the Sea trials of the tang and the deliberate 620 foot deep dive during those trials.

Then finally showing Tangs exploits, right on upto the loss of the tang, and O'kanes eventual repatriation from POW status. We could then end this 4 part mini series in true "Saving private ryan" fashion with an old man with a sub combat pin looking tearfully at the Silent service monument at pearl harbor with his grandson.


Das boot, eat your heart out!

Aren't they making a movie about this from the book?

[nikimcbee]

Then finally showing Tangs exploits, right on upto the loss of the tang, and O'kanes eventual repatriation from POW status. We could then end this 4 part mini series in true "Saving private ryan" fashion with an old man with a sub combat pin looking tearfully at the Silent service monument at pearl harbor with his grandson.


Here's what I'd go for, for a mini series:

1. Depth charging of the Puffer
2. Last patrol of the Tang.
3. Gilmore and the Growler (although I read in the Pampanito book, this story was waaaay exaggerated:hmmm:)
4. S-39 v Lingayen Gulf.
5. Any Wahoo patrol:D

What think ye?

[Sailor Steve]

Big budget film? Probably O'Kane.

Personally I would like to see a redo of the Silent Service TV series. Done with modern technology. Enright, Archerfish and Shinano, for starters. S-boat exploits.

Money to the Germans to do the same thing with the U-bootwaffe.

[Armistead]

It could have Richard O'Kane as its main character. It could start in private ryan fasion with an old man aboard a muesum sub, with a "Grandpa, didn't you used to be on one of these?"... screen fades to flashback.... aboard the USS wahoo's second war patrol depicting his frustration with the current captain. Then the next patrol with Mush mouth morton proclaiming, they're all expendable. Then onto the reconitering of wewak harbor, and wahoo's other epic patrols. Then it could follow O'kane as he is transferred of wahoo to take command of the Tang. It could then show the emotional reactions at the news that the wahoo was lost, the Sea trials of the tang and the deliberate 620 foot deep dive during those trials.

Then finally showing Tangs exploits, right on upto the loss of the tang, and O'kanes eventual repatriation from POW status. We could then end this 4 part mini series in true "Saving private ryan" fashion with an old man with a sub combat pin looking tearfully at the Silent service monument at pearl harbor with his grandson.


Das boot, eat your heart out!


Ducimas for Director!

[John Channing]

Big budget film? Probably O'Kane.

Personally I would like to see a redo of the Silent Service TV series. Done with modern technology. Enright, Archerfish and Shinano, for starters. S-boat exploits.

Money to the Germans to do the same thing with the U-bootwaffe.

I would love to see an HBO treatment of the Pacific Submarine Campaign a la "The Pacific" following three or four of the best known commanders and their crews from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima.

Not gonna happen though.

JCC

[nikimcbee]

I would love to see an HBO treatment of the Pacific Submarine Campaign a la "The Pacific" following three or four of the best known commanders and their crews from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima.

Not gonna happen though.

JCC

Just think of the episode when the sub returns to PH. Knowing HBO's track record with making sure we know everyone gets laid...

Wahoo does the red lght district:o:woot::rock:

[sharkbit]

So, if you were to make a movie about the Wahoo and Tang and Richard O'Kane, who would you have portray O'Kane?

Who would you have portray Morton?

:)

[John Channing]

Having watched "Big Stars" like Sean Connery, Liam Neeson and Harrison Ford play Sub commanders... I vote for unknown actors!

Seriously... one of the brilliant things about Band of Brothers and The Pacific is that you could really buy into the characters instead of thinking "Why does the Russian Captain have a Scottish/Irish/American accent?"

JCC

[Bubblehead1980]

I agree that mostly little known or unknown actors would be great.However, I believe Matt Damon should play Mush Morton, the resembalance and he's a decent actor.The red headed guy from Pearl Harbor would make a great Fluckey.

[Buddahaid]

I had trouble believing Clark Gable, who it seemed was shaking with illness during some scenes. This may have been one of his last films. He wasn't one of my heros anyway.

The book was much better, which led me to get the dvd.

Agreed about the book. The whole movie takes place in the last couple of chapters when things are wrapping up.

[Ducimus]

I would love to see an HBO treatment of the Pacific Submarine Campaign a la "The Pacific" following three or four of the best known commanders and their crews from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima.

Not gonna happen though.

JCC

Nope, nor any movie like, or similar to what i dreamed about earlier. Hollywood is driven by the almighty dollar and ratings. But given the rash of remakes, id have to say they are creatively bankrupt. Some of the coolest stuff can be found if they had enough intelligence to open a F'ing history book. Instead, they spend all their money rehashing old movies rather then do something new and creative.

[DeerHunter UK]

Hollywood makes matters worse by occasionally opening up the history books and they think to themselves, "you know what? We could make this look even better!"
They then make their film and make a complete hash of it. There are notable exceptions of course (Band of Brothers for 1*) but for the most part complete arse gravy historically.



* Yes I do know Band of Brothers was a TV series and not a film.

[danurve]

Decent movie for it's day. Last thing they did was run silent or deep though. Now if Netflix would carry Torpedo Run..

[FIREWALL]

Just bought this : http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000AB0Z2W/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_3?ie=UTF8&index=3

[Ducimus]

Nice find!

[Platapus]

I had trouble believing Clark Gable, who it seemed was shaking with illness during some scenes. This may have been one of his last films. He wasn't one of my heros anyway.

The book was much better, which led me to get the dvd.

Run Silent Run Deep (1958) was Clark Gable's 63rd movie*. His last movie was The Misfits (1961) and was Clark Gable's 67th movie, so it was pretty close to the end of his life.

*Not counting Short Subjects.

I agree that the book was better, but also quite different from the movie.

[Platapus]

Nope, nor any movie like, or similar to what i dreamed about earlier. Hollywood is driven by the almighty dollar and ratings. But given the rash of remakes, id have to say they are creatively bankrupt. Some of the coolest stuff can be found if they had enough intelligence to open a F'ing history book. Instead, they spend all their money rehashing old movies rather then do something new and creative.

And old bad TV shows. Do we reallllly need a movie version of the A-Team? :nope:

[sharkbit]

Just bought this : http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000AB0Z2W/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_3?ie=UTF8&index=3

Looks pretty cool. The still photos in the ad are pretty interesting, especially the ones of the salvage operation of the USS Squalus.

:)

[ancient46]

Film trivia. Burt Lancaster was part owner of the production company. The film debut of Don Rickles. Ed Beach was not happy with the film. The boat in the film was the USS Redfish.

Captain Rob Roy McGregor, who had commanded two fleet boats during World War II, acted as technical advisor. The firing solutions during the film were fairly accurate. Real submariners trained the cast in sub operations.

[FIREWALL]

Nice find!

Looks pretty cool. The still photos in the ad are pretty interesting, especially the ones of the salvage operation of the USS Squalus.

:)

I payed a little extra on shipping to get my paws on it sooner. :DL

I can hardly wait to watch it.

[Bubblehead1980]

Film trivia. Burt Lancaster was part owner of the production company. The film debut of Don Rickles. Ed Beach was not happy with the film. The boat in the film was the USS Redfish.

Captain Rob Roy McGregor, who had commanded two fleet boats during World War II, acted as technical advisor. The firing solutions during the film were fairly accurate. Real submariners trained the cast in sub operations.

why wasnt Beach happy with the film? My main issue if you can call it one is that the film had no submerged attacks other than the begining, every attack was a surface attack.Captain McGregor did a great job as tech advisor.

[sharkbit]

why wasnt Beach happy with the film?

I would bet he wasn't happy because it wasn't anywhere close to what he wrote in the book. Like I said in an earlier post, the only similarities between the book and movie was the title and character names.

:)