Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
February 11, 1960Release Date
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
February 11, 1960Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Kenneth More
Captain Jonathan Shepard
Dana Wynter
Second Officer Anne Davis
Carl Möhner
Kapitän Ernst Lindemann
Laurence Naismith
First Sea Lord - Sir Dudley Pound - Admiral of the Fleet
Geoffrey Keen
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff
Karl Stepanek
Admiral Günther Lutjens
Michael Hordern
Admiral Jack Tovey - Commander in Chief - HMS King George V
Maurice Denham
Commander Richards
Michael Goodliffe
Captain Banister
Jack Watling
RNVR Signals Officer
Esmond Knight
Captain John Leach - HMS Prince of Wales
Lewis Gilbert
Director
Jack Gwillim
Captain Wilfrid Patterson - 'King George V'
Mark Dignam
Captain Maund - 'Ark Royal'
Edmund H. North
Writer
Ernest Clark
Captain Ellis - 'Suffolk'
C. S. Forester
Writer
John Brabourne
Producer
John Horsley
Captain - 'Sheffield'
Peter Burton
Captain Philip Vian - 4th Destroyer of Flotilla
Clifton Parker
Composer
John Stuart
Captain Kerr - 'Hood'
Christopher Challis
Cinematographer
Walter Hudd
Admiral Holland - 'Hood'
Peter R. Hunt
Editor
Sydney Tafler
Henry - First Workman, 'Prince of Wales'
Nora Roberts
CastingDirector
Sean Barrett
Able Seaman Brown
Thomas Waldron Price
Flag Lieutenant to First Sea Lord
Edward R. Murrow
Himself - Edward R. Murrow
John Stride
Tom Shepard, Captain Shepard's son, TAG - Ark Royal's Swordfish Squadron (uncredited)
Peter Dyneley
Commander Jenkins (uncredited)
Victor Maddern
Able Seaman Outside Admiralty (uncredited)
David Hemmings
Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Johnny Briggs
Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Norman Shelley
Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited)
John Barron
Officer P.R.O (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Airman on Phone (uncredited)
Walter Gotell
Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Glyn Houston
Able Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Cameron Hall
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Peter Forbes-Robertson
Signalman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Michael Ripper
Able Seaman - Lookout on 'Suffolk' (uncredited)
Michael Balfour
Able Seaman - Lookout on 'Suffolk' (uncredited)
Graham Stark
Petty Officer Williams (uncredited)
Olaf Pooley
Officer of the Watch - 'Sheffield' (uncredited)
Edwin Richfield
Bridge Officer (uncredited)
George Pravda
Damage Control Officer - Bismarck (uncredited)
Russell Napier
Air Vice Marshal (uncredited)
Edward Judd
Navigating Officer - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Bernard Lee
Firing Officer (uncredited)
Robert Brown
Gunnery Officer - 'King George V' (uncredited)
Max Butterfield
Dark Room Technician (uncredited)
Mark Burns
Naval Rating on Phone (uncredited)
Roy Castle
Able Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Victor Beaumont
Officer - 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Richard Beale
Petty Officer on Phone (uncredited)
Donald Churchill
Able Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Peter Cellier
First Lieutenant - Destroyer (uncredited)
Charles Houston
Airman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Patrick Jordan
SOE Agent in Norway (uncredited)
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Somers - Officer 'King George V' (uncredited)
Hugh Latimer
Commander - War Room (uncredited)
Sean Lynch
Mail Clerk - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Julian Somers
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Michael Sarne
Hoffman - 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Robert Desmond
Dexter (uncredited)
John Bailey
Naval Officer (uncredited)
Michael Collins
Lookout - Second Destroyer (uncredited)
John G. Heller
Lt. Becker on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Ian Hendry
Meteorological Officer on 'King George V' (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 11, 1960
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 37m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsPinewood Studios, United Kingdom
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the 1959 book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. To date, it is the only film made that deals directly with the operations, chase and sinking of the battleship Bismarck by the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Although war films were common in the 1960s, Sink the Bismarck! was seen as something of an anomaly, with much of its time devoted to the "unsung back-room planners as much as on the combatants themselves". Its historical accuracy, in particular, met with much praise despite a number of inconsistencies.
Sink the Bismarck! was the inspiration for Johnny Horton's highly popular 1960 song, "Sink the Bismarck",
credited by Variety with boosting the film's American gross alone by an estimated half a million dollars.
The film had its Royal World Premiere in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh at the Odeon Leicester Square on 11 February 1960.