Sink the Bismarck! with Kenneth More: DVD Cover

    Sink the Bismarck! Director: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Mohner, Laurence Naismith

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    • DVD Release Date: 05/20/2003
    • Original Release: 1960
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 7,039

    Viewer Rating: (3 ratings)

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Germany's Largest Battleship
    2. Main Titles
    3. Fighting Alone
    4. The New Director
    5. Warship Sighting
    6. An Interrupted Message
    7. Locating the Bismarck
    8. A Calculated Risk
    9. A Chance for Glory
    10. The Waiting
    11. Unsinkable
    12. No Feelings
    13. Bismarck Sighted
    14. Preparing for Battle
    15. Battle With the Bismarck
    16. They'll Never Stop Us
    17. Sink the Bismarck
    18. A Letter for Tom
    19. Goodbye and Good Hunting
    20. Air Strike
    21. Lost Contact
    22. Where's the Bismarck?
    23. Two Offers
    24. Bad News
    25. The Wrong Ship
    26. Our Last Chance
    27. Closing In
    28. Good News
    29. The Main Event
    30. Finished
    31. The Pleasure of Your Company
    32. End Titles

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    Editorial Reviews

    The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. This film traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching (courtesy of newsreel footage) through its many battles and narrow escapes, concluding with its far-from-inevitable sinking in the Spring of 1941. Since one couldn't expect a ship to carry a 97-minute movie, the story concentrates on the human element, specifically a British intelligence captain (Kenneth More), who has lost his family in the London blitz and thus has a personal reason for seeing the Bismarck blasted from the sea. The captain's tireless efforts are abetted by the love and support of a female naval officer Dana Wynter. The climactic sinking is deftly assembled from stock footage and newly shot scenes of expertly delineated scale models. As a bonus, Sink the Bismarck yielded a hit song, which many children of the 1960s can still recite from memory. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

    Customer Reviews

    Entertaining fictionalized account of the Royal Navy's hunt for the Bismarck with solid performancesby LanceT

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    March 23, 2009: Great widescreen war movie from Fox, with solid performances by Kenneth More and Dana Wynter in the fictional aspect of the script that provides an effective counterpoint to the military excitement. Understated in the British tradition (although largely an American production), the hunt for the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen is described succinctly and portrayed with an eye for balance between set pieces and personal relationships. Miniature and effects work is fine, long before the days of CG effects.

    Weaknesses are the German admiral's caricature of a Nazi officer and some military protocol that is more American than British, but they don't really detract.

    Edward R. Murrow plays himself in cameo newscasts, and the screenwriter, Edmund H. North, later contributed to an even more famous Fox war movie--Patton. Director Lewis Gilbert went on to direct two James Bond movies. Recommended.

    I Don't Care How You Do It!by Anonymous

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    March 01, 2004: Churchill said it, or at least one of his doubles said it. This is a dramatization that is factual, filled with historical significance. For we Americans, it is a lesser known battle because most Americans think that WWII began with the attack on Pearl Harbour. More men were lost on the HMS Hood than at Pearl. Did the Germans sink it? Truly, this was an important battle.


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