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Genre | Action & Adventure |
Format | Black & White, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen, Silent |
Contributor | Clark Gable, Robert Wise, Nick Cravat, Jimmy Bates, Joe Maross, Don Rickles, Mary LaRoche, Rudy Bond, John Gay, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Edward L. Beach, John Bryant, Eddie Foy III, Burt Lancaster See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 33 minutes |
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"Rich" Richardson (Clark Gable) is a hard-driving, dedicated submarine officer with a single-mindedpurposeto seek out and smash the Japanese destroyer he believes sank his former ship. Given a new command, Richardson drills his men to the point of mutiny as he relentlessly trains them for the battle ahead. At last, word comes of the destroyer's position, and, disobeying orders, Richardson finally confronts his foe, unaware that an even greater enemy lurks nearby...one who's been targeting him for a watery grave. Co-starring Burt Lancaster as Gable's executive officer, this gripping WWII adventure-thriller set a new standard for submarine pictures. "Severely, nail-bitingly tense" (The New York Times), Run Silent, Run Deep is the most exciting film about the "silent service" ever made.
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A movie's lasting value can often be measured by its influence in the years and decades following its original release, and on that basis Run Silent, Run Deep is certainly a classic of sorts. It remains one of the seminal World War II submarine pictures, and its intelligent script and tautly executed action are clearly echoed in such later submarine dramas as Das Boot and especially Crimson Tide, which borrows liberally from this 1958 film.
In one of his best and final roles (he appeared in only four films after this), Clark Gable plays a submarine captain without a command, having been saddled with a desk job after his previous ship was destroyed due to his overzealous pursuit of the enemy in dangerous Japanese waters. He finally gets another boat--this time with a vigilant first officer (Burt Lancaster), who stands poised to assume command if Gable puts his crew in unnecessary danger. The tension and mutual respect between these two principled men is superbly written and directed (Robert Wise was just two years away from his triumph with West Side Story), and the crucial inclusion of a strong supporting cast (including Jack Warden and Don Rickles) enhances the movie's compelling authenticity. Based on a novel by former submarine commander Edward L. Beach, Run Silent, Run Deep is rousing entertainment with the added benefit of paying honorable tribute to the men who navigated through the most frightening and claustrophobic channels of the Pacific theater. --Jeff Shannon
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1, 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 4 ounces
- Director : Robert Wise
- Media Format : Black & White, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen, Silent
- Run time : 1 hour and 33 minutes
- Release date : May 18, 1999
- Actors : Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Don Rickles
- Subtitles: : English, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0), Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)
- Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
- ASIN : 0792841670
- Writers : Edward L. Beach, John Gay
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #17,205 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #217 in Military & War (Movies & TV)
- #1,739 in Action & Adventure DVDs
- #2,711 in Drama DVDs
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The average reviews for the movie are 5 stars! It has touched countless people over the years and left them all with the same impression on just how great it is.
Pros:
- It is shot in black & white which lends authenticity to its classic nature
- Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden & Clark Gable at their best in their careers
- Run Silent Run Deep set the standard by which all other submarine movies are made
- The special effects allow are great to see in the old style
- A World War II movie that pits the struggles of the leading characters in their fight against the enemy
Cons:
- If you are looking for modern animated digital effects they are not here
- The true living conditions and reality of what submarine warfare was like for the crew inside a submarine is not brought out
Summation:
This is classic Hollywood at its best in the 1950’s. It used state of the art special effects that are visually stunning to watch even today. It pits the struggle of the crew of the sub with a new captain. They only know the rumors of the captain’s past and their struggle in dealing with those rumors is manifested as the war patrol goes on. The leadership of a navel officer is displayed at its best when the XO, Burt Lancaster, supports his new Captain, Clark Gable, and demands the crew remain loyal to the captain.
The movie starts, as many war movies do of this time period, with the characters back at port and their family life. The sailors are soon separated from their loved ones and put into a steel tube lined in asbestos, backed in cork and then sent thousands of miles out to sink enemy shipping. The crew struggles with the new captain but the executive officer keeps them loyal to the captain at all costs. In a turn of events the captain orders the boat into the bungo straights, a death sentence in the past for American boats, while the crew is stricken with anger in the captains’ violation of his orders to stay out.
Eventually the crew learns why the captain had them perform drills and why they entered the bungo straights. The victory they find makes all the hardships worthwhile.
This movie is great for the style and drama. It set the foundation for all other submarine movies to come. “Run Silent Run Deep” was the movie that set the stage for later movies like “Das Boot”.
I deliberately gleaned over some topics so you would not have the plot disclosed if you have never seen the movie before.
Verdict:
I highly recommend watching this movie. You cannot get better acting than this and the stars are all at their best. Even today very few submarines can compare to this film and the tension in it. You will enjoy it and it should really be seen on a large screen TV or movie screen. Get some popcorn and something to drink then sit back and enjoy your evening.
One of my all time favorite movies!
Their face-off is a long time coming but there's plenty to keep things lively in the interim as Gable's plan inevitably goes wrong, it becomes clear that the Japanese were expecting them and they find an unexplained signal. And once the crew rallies for a return engagement there's a couple of neat twists and a particularly gripping game of cat and mouse and near misses that benefit from some excellent blocking of the underwater sequences that make each torpedo run particularly suspenseful. There's a good supporting cast - Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Don Rickles and Lancaster's old circus partner Nick Cravat in a rare speaking role among them - and the 93-minute running time keeps things from getting slack.
Kino Lorber's Region A-locked Blu-ray offers an occasionally variable 1.66:1 widescreen transfer - most shots have excellent clarity and depth, some look softer and at times in the first couple of reels there are shots where the left side of the frame seems slightly out of focus while the right is pin-sharp even when it's clearly not an artistic choice - but for the most part pretty good. Like MGM/UA's DVD, the only extra is the original theatrical trailer.
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Film plot
The World War II U.S. Navy submarine commander P.J. Richardson (Clark Gable) has an obsession with the Japanese destroyer that had sunk his previous boat and three others in the Bungo Straits. He persuades the Navy Board to give him a new submarine command with the provision that his executive officer, also known as the XO or the "exec", be someone who has just returned from active sea patrol. He is single-mindedly training the crew of his new boat, the USS Nerka, to return to the Bungo Straits and sink the destroyer, captained by a crafty ex-submariner, now destroyer captain, nicknamed Bungo Pete. Richardson's executive officer, Lieutenant Jim Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster), is worried about the safety of his boat and his crew. Bledsoe also is seething with resentment at Richardson and the Navy leadership for denying him command of the boat which he believes should rightfully have been his.
Richardson begins to drill the crew on a rapid bow shot, during which the submarine shoots at a destroyer moving in for the kill "down the throat" (i.e., at its bow coming head-on), which is normally considered a desperation shot due to the extremely narrow profile of the target. He then bypasses one target only to take on a Japanese destroyer using the bow shot on which they have drilled. The crew becomes outraged when it becomes apparent that Richardson is choosing to avoid all legitimate targets in order to enter the Bungo Straits undetected in direct contradiction to mission orders, jeopardizing the boat and its crew merely to avenge the destroyed submarine. Soon after engaging Bungo Pete, they are attacked by aircraft that had been clearly alerted to their presence and had been waiting in ambush. They are forced to dive and barely escape destruction from depth charges. Three of the crew are killed, and Richardson suffers a skull fracture which incapacitates him. They are also almost hit by what they mistakenly believe is one of their own torpedoes doubling back on them. By sending up blankets, equipment, and the bodies of the dead, they convince the Japanese that the submarine has been sunk. Bledsoe uses Richardson's incapacitation to assume command and as an excuse to return to Pearl Harbor.
While listening to Tokyo Rose proclaiming the sinking of their boat, they are mystified how the Japanese were able to identify the crew of the boat. They later realize the Japanese are collecting their garbage. Bledsoe then realizes additionally that the submarine now has a real advantage—the Japanese believe they are sunk and their source of intelligence has ended—and returns to the Bungo Straits to fight the Akikaze destroyer, which the submarine defeats only to be subjected again to a mystery torpedo. Richardson deduces that it was not the Akikaze alone which had been destroying the US submarines but a Japanese submarine working in concert with the destroyer. He orders the boat into a dive just seconds before a Japanese torpedo shoots by. The US submarine then forces its adversary to surface and destroys it. The older submarine skipper thus achieves his revenge. The film ends with Richardson dying from his head injury and being buried at sea. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)