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Atlantic Ocean | World War Ii
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Best British Film | 1957
Best British Screenplay | 1957
Best Film from any Source | 1957
The Midshipmen's quarters were empty because Captain Langsdorff had promoted all of his Midshipmen to Ensigns in order to make room for his prisoners.
The original English version of this movie omits the tragic final act of the story. A few days after scuttling his own ship, German Captain Hans Langsdorff committed suicide in a hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was dressed in full uniform and wrapped in the battle flag of his sunken vessel. In the German dubbed version, the final voice-over was changed to explain what happened to Langsdorff.
Attention to detail was particularly important to the producers, so all of the naval procedures depicted in this movie are completely accurate. The scene where Harwood meets with his Captains on board the Ajax, however, was a fictitious one, created in order to explain the situation to the audience.
The U.S.S. Salem was a World War II-vintage Des Moines-class heavy cruiser, armed with nine eight-inch guns. In this movie, we can also see the three-inch AA guns installed to combat Kamikaze attacks.
H.M.S. Cumberland played herself. However, she had been withdrawn from front line service and was being used as a gunnery trials ship, with various prototype turrets installed from time to time, so that they could be evaluated. When she appears towards the end of the movie, it is obvious that her forward turrets (A and B) have been removed, and a small prototype turret installed in the X (aft) position. H.M.S. Cumberland was finally scrapped two years after the shooting of this movie.
"Captain Langsdorff 'Admiral Graff Spee': [to Captain Dove] Every commander is alone, Captain."
"Captain Bell - H.M.S. Exeter: The Commodore calling a council of Captains at sea. Quite the Nelson touch, eh?"
