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Nick Cravat - Russo (Cuistot)

Mary Laroche - Laura

"Plongée! Plongée!" Cet ordre martelé par le commandant sur fond de sirène d'alerte ont marqué la plupart des spectateurs.

Totalement oublié du grand public, l'Odyssée du Sous-Marin Nerka reste pourtant une référence du genre. En effet,

Une référence dans ce type de sujet. Les sous-mariniers américains ne s'y sont pas trompés qui ont ovationné ce film rendant bien compte de leur vie. Clark Gable et Burt Lancaster s'affrontent de façon un peu convenue, classique, déjà vue, mais le scénario est très bien ficelé, les images spectaculaires, et lors de l'attaque de face d'un destroyer sous les bombes des avions japonais, on mouille sa chemise devant l'écran!

Run Silent Run Deep is one of the essential submarine movies. This movie has great acting great action and great tension of all levels. This is one movie to behold. Burt Lancaster plays the first officer of a submarine and he gets a new captain he resents initially, played by Clark Gable. The first few minutes on land are excellent. Jack Warden is excellent in a great character part.

This movie is suspenseful well-acted and very accurate to submarine life but submarines still would not be that large. Don Rickles does a nice job in a supporting part that was originally supposed to go to Frank Gorshin. The story here is so well written. This movie is so well thought out.

The movie is a bit melodramatic. There would be no and I mean no talk of mutiny on a ship. That just doesn't happen. A Captain's orders are almost never questioned. But the attack scenes are priceless. They will have you on the edge of your seats. This is not a mindless action movie either. There are a lot of intelligent plot twists and very well written dialogue.

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Clark Gable's near obsession is interestingly drawn out. We first think that he is crazy for his ideas and we learn that what he is doing is quite intelligent. Clark Gable does an excellent job. Gable is such a great actor anyway. He is such a diverse actor. He has played so many different parts and this is one of his best parts. Burt Lancaster has rarely played a part differently from that very cocky well-groomed debonair type but I still like him. He does very well. Jack Warden does an excellent job in this part. He really brings a lot of class to this part. And Don Rickles does a great job. He really isn't a humorous person here but he does well. By the way he wasn't very well known at the time.

I want to reiterate there would be so little conflict on the ship like this. There is no talk the way they talk on here. The conflict between the Second in Command and the Captain would not be like this. SPOILER: And during the depth charges there would not be that many of them. But this is still a great movie.

I love this movie. This is a classic one not to be missed. This is one of the best movies of all time. This is one of Clark Gable's last movies and one of his bests. There is little else to Say except there is not to be missed.

WOW! is all I can say. This is the most realistic submarine film of it's day. I don't think anybody equalled this film in this genre until Das Boot was released nearly 30 years later. Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster star in this epic about a submarine and a mission. Others have commented at length on the basic story, so I'll leave that alone. Only a couple of details bothered me. The men were all too clean and well-shaven to be sub sailors. Some of the newer WWII US Subs had air conditioning, so that could explain the cleanliness and lack of condensation in the boat. Still, the entire crew should have been growing beards for the entire length of the cruise. Water was too precious to be used for shaving. The only scene that I felt was unrealistic was one scene in the crew's mess. The space shown is far too large to have been aboard a US Fleet boat. Otherwise, I found the film to be a great depiction of the way life was aboard a US sub during WWII. The acting is superb by the entire cast. This is one of the greats

Like the Caine Mutiny, Mutiny on the Bounty, and other films, Bledsoe feels called to `relieve' Richardson as captain, after he realizes Richardson plans to make another attempt at the Akakazi, after narrowly avoiding destruction and losing three men in their first battle with it.

Without giving away the rest of the plot, this is a good old-fashioned war movie. All of the action is either inside or on the deck of the tiny sub after the fist 20 minutes or so, yet things never stagnate. The tension builds between the two officers and the life and death struggles of the crew and its machine against the hardware of the enemy make time stand still. Although special effects have come a long way since 1958, sometimes simple is better. The eerie stillness and pitch blackness of the ocean shots as the crew silently waits for depth charges to explode, is riveting. When they do explode and light up the silhouette of the sub, the effect is about as good as any CGI today could produce.

The cast is great with wonderful veterans like Jack Warden and Don Rickles adding their professionalism and polish to the production. Of course, Lancaster and Gable both turn in outstanding performances. Has any captain ever had a more commanding voice for crying `Dive! Dive!'?

Run Silent, Run Deep is not as long, nor as complicated as many war movies and also avoids the temptation to tack on an ill-fitting romance or to philosophize about war and peace or US versus Japanese morality. It merely tells the story of a man determined to avenge the death of his earlier crew and another man determined to keep HIS crew from going to the same watery grave. This is one of the better submarine films ever made and is still a fine family film that has lost none of its watchability or poignancy.

Submarine movies are almost always fun to watch. Everyone crowded together, sweating, all that obsolete technology, sliding down ladders, hatches clanging shut, the popping rivet, the depth charges, the man left on deck as the sub plunges beneath the waves, the wisecracking crew, and the commands -- "Rig for silent running." "Rig for Depth Charge." "Crash Dive!" "Take her down to fifty feet." "Open outer doors one and two." "After torpedo room, report damage." "Come right to course one five zero." It's like going to mass.

"Run Silent, Run Deep" thankfully has no romantic side interest. The special effects are echt-1950s -- back projections, rather obvious model work. But it's fairly well done, for its kind. The major conflict is between Captain Gable (looking puffy-eyed, as if just coming down from battery acid) and Exec Lancaster, who was deprived of the command through direct intervention by Gable, who has his own agenda.

Gable's first boat was sunk in the Bungo Straits. Now he intends to disobey orders and take his new boat back to the same spot, kind of obsessed with revenging his lost shipmates. The crew come to think of him as just as mad as Captain Ahab following HIS obsession. Gable drills the crew over and over in order to get them to dive in exactly 32 seconds. (Thirty-seven won't do.) He does other odd things without explanation. He ignores a Japanese sub, ignores a convoy. He sinks a Momo destroyer with "a shot that isn't even in the books." The purpose of all this odd behavior is to sink the Akakaze, the destroyer that apparently got his last boat, as well as three or four others in the Bungo Straits. Let us simply say that in the end, Gable enters his house justified, or in this case his ocean.

There's a lot of tension aboard the boat, of course, what with the captain keeping his plans all to himself. The problem is that the story itself doesn't really make any sense. Here, presented in no particular order, are some questions that kept nagging at me.

1. Gable sinks the Momo destroyer with a down-the-throat shot as practice for pulling the same stunt with the Akakaze destroyer. "The Akakaze is no Momo," someone points out, "The Akakaze never misses." What's the difference between a Momo and an Akakaze? Why does one serve merely for target practice, while the other never misses? How can you tell one individual destroyer from another individual destroyer through a submarine's periscope? We're never told the answer.

2. Gable's plan involves attracting the destroyer, steaming on the surface as the destroyer approaches, firing at the sub, submerging in 32 seconds, then firing a head-on shot at the destroyer. Why thirty-two seconds? What's so great about 32 seconds? Why not dive five seconds earlier and let the process take 37 seconds? Answer: as far as we can tell, it makes no difference at all, except that shaving off the additional 5 seconds enhances the alienation of the crew from the captain. This is known as a "plot device."

3. The boat and the Akakaze finally meet, and the Akakaze turns head-on as planned, but the boat comes under air attack. At this point, Gable, alone on the bridge, hollers down the hatch, "We'll have to make this a surface attack." Why? Why doesn't he follow through with his original plan to submerge? The boat would be protected against air attack and the original plan could be followed without modification. (As it is, the surface attack fails.) Why does being attacked from the air compel a submarine to remain on the surface? Answer: Only Gable knows, and he took his secret with him.

4. After each destroyer attack -- whether the destroyer is sunk or not -- some mysterious morse code comes in on the radio. It turns out to be coming from a nearby Japanese submarine whose presence is unexpected. Why is the Japanese submarine betraying its presence by using its radio, since its effectiveness depends on its remaining hidden? Answer: They really ARE inscrutable?

5. Just after sinking a freighter and the Momo destroyer, Captain Gable avoids firing at a Japanese convoy they encounter because he doesn't want to give away his position. What's the point? He has just torpedoed and sunk two Japanese ships. The second ship, the Momo, had ample time to signal that he was under torpedo attack and that, therefore, there was an enemy submarine around. Answer: No excuse, sir.

6. At the end, after they have sunk the Akakaze, they hear radio signals that seem to come out of nowhere. A radioman asks, "What is that, sir. I can't make that out." Are they all stupid? The signals are in nice clear CW, although the message is just a jumble of random letters and numbers, nicely transmitted. Any competent operator would know that they were coming from an antenna that was close by. If you have a loud transmission coming from a nearby antenna in the middle of the ocean and you sweep the horizon and there are no surface ships, what conclusion is logically forced upon you? Answer: seagulls.

7. The crew has been driven nuts by all those practice dives designed to prune their time to submerge down to 32 seconds. At the end, with the Akakaze steaming head-on as planned, although they have plenty of time to dive, they take her in on the surface and launch torpedoes at the prearranged distance. The plan works and the Akakaze is blown to bits. What was the purpose of all those demanding practice dives? Why was the original plan discarded? Again, nobody knows.

Nick Cravatt, Lancaster's old circus buddy, is in this film too. He is even given a speaking part, mostly comic. He was better in those parts where, like Harpo, he was mute. His ingenuous overacting was endearing. Lancaster's performance is toned down. We don't get to see that mile-wide grin filled with gleaming ivory tombstones.

This is the best movie about submarines in the US Navy during World War II. While full of realistic action, it breathes NAVY--this is actually what it was like to serve on a US sub during the war. Reality is not sacrificed for drama--but there is plenty of that too. One can feel the tension between Gable and Lancaster, but both are career officers and things are done the Navy way. The tension builds as the sub approaches "the graveyard" off Japan--the Bungo Straits--where so many US subs have been lost. Gable is on a mission and Lancaster and the crew are worried that he may take the boat too far. The cast is superb and don't miss Don Rickles in one of his best roles.

This is one of my favorite movies. While not as technologically accurate as Das Boot, it is an entertaining film which will capture your attention and leave you satisfied at the end. The development of the tension and conflict between Clark Gable, the submarine commander, and Burt Reynolds, his first officer, as their conflict over the purpose and method of their mission evolves is fascinating. There are very good and tense battle scenes in this film, and once you have seen it, the phrase, "We'll take her with decks awash," will be branded in your mind forever.

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