Run Silent Run Deep(movie)

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by John Channing

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-me...e=UTF8&index=3

[Ducimus]

Nice find!

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

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?

[sharkbit]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

Just bought this : http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-me...e=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]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Nice find!

Originally Posted by sharkbit

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.

I can hardly wait to watch it.

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

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.