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Originally Posted by Sonarman

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Originally Posted by prologos

(Are you around here Mr Spielberg?):D
Interesting book about the men serving in a convoy, and how they felt is HMS Ulysses by Alistair McLean. His first book.

Funnily enough Mr Spielberg/Dreamworks did actually purchase the rights to Adm Fluckey's book "Thunder Below" a few years ago (about 5) and a movie script was indeed developed from it, but not yet shot, so that it's actually quite possible- especially with teh success of "Letters" & "Flags"!

from Yahoo movies on writer Shane Salerno...
"Schmidt was also pitching a submarine story, "Thunder Below" which Salerno convinced Schmidt to let him write. Both projects were ultimately stalled, but not before "A Season in Hell" was bought for mid-six figures and "Thunder Below" was greenlighted by Steven Spielberg for DreamWorks. "

I've read "HMS Ulysees" too, a very fine book, in may ways similar to "The Cruel Sea" both authors having served in convoy duty in the Royal Navy, their books were very authentic.

I didn't know that! I sure hope it will make it into production, especially when Spielberg is one of my favorites directors :D

Also funny is the fact that just some minutes before as I was searching wikipedia about the English title of HMS Ulysses (the version I have read in Greek had a different title "Battle at Sea", as it was very common in Greek publications of foreign books to change the title in ordre to make it more apealing), I saw "The cruel Sea" mentioned in the same article. First time I heard it and here you are mentioning it in a matter of minutes :D

"The novel received good critical notices as well, with a number of reviewers putting it into the same class as two other 1950s classic tales of World War II at sea, Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny and Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea. [1]."

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Originally Posted by prologos

I saw "The Cruel Sea" mentioned in the same article. First time I heard it and here you are mentioning it in a matter of minutes :D

Yes, and the "Cruel Sea" movie is also great, probably the closest thing we in the UK have to a "Das Boot".

More on the Cruel Sea movie

The most famous scene from the film on Youtube

Thanks for posting that. I read The Cruel Sea not to long ago; now waiting for a chance to see the movie. Our local library also had Monsarrat At Sea, a collection of his actual articles he wrote during the war, some short stories (including a delightful one about three men delivering a yacht to Dunkirk and lying about what they did that famous day) and a story telling the true story about his wartime adventures, and what he really thought of the officers he served with. All-in-all a great read.

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Our local library also had Monsarrat At Sea,

I've been eyeing that up on Amazon UK, thanks for the review, sound's like a must have.

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Originally Posted by prologos

The novel received good critical notices as well, with a number of reviewers putting it into the same class as two other 1950s classic tales of World War II at sea, Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny and Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea. [1]."

The Caine Mutiny is another great film, hardly any fighting in it but the psychological drama/ nature of command aspects work well, a good story, well shot, unlike 85% of today's Hollywood output.

The tension, atmosphere and close quaters is what does it for me. If there is a love story or Matthew McConaughey then you've lost me!:nope:

Well lets see, some of my favorites ,( not a sub movie but subs are in it)The Cruel Sea, Das Boot, The Enemy Below. The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, Down Periscope for its plain stupidity, K-19,Operation Petticoat, Run Silent Run Deep, and a WWII movie that has not been made about a american sub (Modern gents, not ancient I would like to sea a modern twist to some of the old classics).

IMO a good submarine movie has action, suspense and suprises.

In Which We Serve (1942) :arrgh!:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034891/

A good scripit, same as every other movie. The Hunt for Red October has one of the best.