I was intrigued to find out that there really were radio-equipped 'rescue floats' that had been dropped into the channel by the Germans for the use of downed Luftwaffe aircrew. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. Movie & TV guides. It is chiefly due to Hobson's resourcefulness that the crew succeeds. Once at sea they are told that their new mission is to find the German battleship "Brandenburg" and sink her before she can get into the Baltic Sea. As for the title sequence, am I the only one who is utterly charmed by Gainsborough Production's lovely pre-CGI Gainsborough Girl? Top 200 of all time "Rotten Tomatoes Is … Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Tyrone Power never seem to miss. Once the submarine leaves the dock, the film is launched! All rights reserved. The film "In which we serve" should have been.................. Unexceptional but involving submarine story. In WDaD I was thinking "whoa, Das Boot but British". I happened to stumble on this movie on UCSD-TV (San Diego) last night and was instantly enthralled. March 2, 2019 For those unacquainted with target priorities, an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here. Cinemark and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. The battle sequences are well staged, with stock footage intercut with interior sequences taking place in the submarine. We Dive at Dawn is a WW2 movie made during WW2, the first I've seen of its kind. John Mills' face shows great communication when presented with difficult decisions and made the film work, whilst not going so far as being unbelievable. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Don't have an account? Forgot your password? Anthony Asquith directed this relatively inexpensive and thoroughly adequate war-time thriller about a British submarine hunting a new German battleship, the fictional Brandenburg. His men are jolly tars, for the most part, competent at their jobs and always ready with a joke when things get tense. In this movie one gets the sense that it is not so easy to sink an enemy ship at range. (NTSC available on a VCI DVD; PAL available on a Simply Media DVD or an ITV Silver Collection disc). Compare to "Destination Tokyo" (which I like), for instance. Copyright © Fandango. I am a fan of submarine books and movies. If that wasn't difficult enough, they will also have to contend with German mines and a submarine net in the process-as well as any German destroyers serving as escorts. Here, as in so many other British war films, the men invariably have thick regional working class accents while the officers speak with an educated fluency that would place them at home in England's finest ruling-class establishments. The film is and will remain well worth watching for scenes like these. |. We Dive at Dawn Quotes. I was so wrong. | Rating: B I needed to watch a realistic war movie portraying real Anthony Asquith's wartime action film is surprisingly good, given the constraints under which it was made. Coming Soon. The stalking of the 'Brandenburg' is very well done as are the scenes of misleading and evading the destroyers. 8,557 feet. 'It' was in fact two boats, P614 and P615, both built for Turkey by Vickers Armstorng at Barrow-in-Furness but kept hold of by the Royal Navy for the duration of the war. It is always pleasant to see John Mills acting but the constraints of wartime mean this is not much more than a propaganda piece plucky Brits pulling off a near impossible mission. | The film managed to convey the tension of life aboard a submarine at this time, with the weakest parts those based outside of the submarine. and the Terms and Policies, The direction achieves agonies of suspense and thrills. London opening at the Odeon, Leicester Square: 20 May 1943. Coming Soon. WE DIVE AT DAWN is an interesting example of a wartime propaganda film in which every social class is represented, from the upper class officer Lt. Gordon (Jack Watling), to the no-nonsense working class L/S Hobson (Eric Portman), who believes that his wife Alice (Josephine Wilson) has left him for the local fish-and-chip shop owner. So much more realistic (IMHO) than the typical (American) submarine movie. Awards This was especially so in the frequent shots of Mills gazing through the sub's periscope. However, the scenes that really struck me most forcibly as realistic were those in the engine room during the episode where the Baltic A/S net was penetrated. and the Terms and Policies, Tight, taut drama, not for the movie goer who cannot think, A tense British war movie -- the Sea Tiger hunts the Brandenburg -- from 1943, with John Mills and Eric Portman. With John Mills, Louis Bradfield, Ronald Millar, Jack Watling. The pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the Ealing, Rank and British-Gaumont studios back in the day: frankly I prefer its quieter, more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over-produced Hollywood movie ever could. Don't have an account? Better than average understated WWII submarine drama from England. 95 minutes. The interior scenes of the submarine in combat have a documentary feel that Asquith's elders and betters failed manifestly to capture. The journey to find it is dull and uneventful but the confrontation is tense and leaves the submarine struggling below the waves. This movie is all about reality, submarine warfare in WW2 was not a clean precise science. A solid war movie that is enjoyable and avoids the problems associated with wartime/propaganda films. This reminds me of Powell and Pressburger's The 49th Parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive Eric Portman, a favorite of mine. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a solid submarine film which covered most of the basic elements for this type of picture.
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