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Run Silent, Run Deep on DVD (1958)

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Average rating: 71%
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3.5
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Starring: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Don Rickles, Rudy Bond, Nick Cravat, Mary LaRoche
Director: Robert Wise
Studio: MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 89 mins
Certificate: U
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama
Languages: English
Dubbed: French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired: English, German
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Released: 13/11/2000

Brief synopsis of Run Silent, Run Deep

Run silent, run deep is a term that accurately describes the mission of the submarine in this tense World War II drama. Commander Richardson (Clark Gable) is the only survivor when his sub is hit by a notorious Japanese destroyer dubbed Bongo Pete in the Bongo Straits of Japan. Back at Pearl Harbor, Richardson obsessively plays out strategies that would have saved his crew. When he is reassigned a new ship in the Pacific, he must face old demons as well as the sub's younger executive officer who was slated for captain, Lt. Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster). Bledsoe has the support of his crew and locks horns easily with Richardson, but when the captain disobeys navy orders to stay clear of the Bongo Straits, taking the crew right in to go after Bongo Pete, there is very nearly a mutiny. RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP is marked by strong performances, particularly by Gable, and a taut script. The scenes of the rigorous sub drills the captain puts his crew through are intensive and exceptional.

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Rating of 4 stars out of 5 Radio Times

This terse, brilliantly directed study in revenge is one of the best submarine movies ever made — Quentin Tarantino even referred to it as such in his additions to the screenplay of Crimson Tide. Clark Gable stars as the commander who returns to the dreaded Bongo Straits where he had previously lost a sub and his men. Of course, second-in-command Burt Lancaster isn't happy, feeling that he should be in charge, and his reticence and the resentfulness of the crew make for fine drama in a confined space. Former editor Robert Wise — who numbers Citizen Kane among his early work — proves that there's much more to his directorial career than the musicals he tends to be remembered for today, and the opening, pre-title sequence of this film is a classic example of movie storytelling. Even if you don't like the genre, this film merits watching for its star power alone.

Rating of 1 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Competent, unsurprising war actioner trading on its stars.

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Rated - 4 starsOld Classic

A customer from essex , 08/08/2004

If you a fan of those old war movies then this one is for you. Great old navel movie that is everything you expect in a film.

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Rated - 3 starsCLASSIC

A customer from west mids , 15/02/2006

saw this a couple of times on tv, but wanted to see it one more time, classic film.

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Rated - 4 starsWW2 classic

filmwatcher from Brixham , 01/07/2008

A run-of -the-mill wartime story, very well cast and filmed.

Maybe just a little predictable.

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Rated - 3 starsCLASSIC

A customer from west mids , 15/02/2006

saw this a couple of times on tv, but wanted to see it one more time, classic film.

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