The Finest Hours

The Finest Hours

Movie |

Coast Guard | Based On True Story

  • Duration: 1h 54min
  • Music: Carter Burwell,Dean A. Zupancic,Dan O'Connell,Luke Gibleon,Daniel Saxlid
  • Award(s): World Soundtrack 2016 (Won) Awards List
  • Similar To: Hotel Mumbai, The Angel
  • Story:
    The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
    Full Story
6.7/10
IMDb

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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Ratings

6.7/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
World Soundtrack Award

Film Composer of the Year For and | 2016

Film Composer of the Year | 2016 | Carter

Truly Moving Picture Award

2016

(director) | 2016 | Craig

BOX OFFICE

Budget 80,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 52,099,090 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

It is implied that the captain of the Pendleton was responsible for the sinking because of an error in judgment. The Pendleton was a T2 style tanker that, as with other "liberty ships," was built in haste during the Second World War to support the Allies in Britain. The limited building facilities resulting from the rush of shipbuilding resulted in the T2 ships being built in two sections (bow and stern) and later joined at the middle. They had a known issue in that they tended to break in half when facing the combination of cold seas and extreme weather. By insisting on maintaining 7 knots, the captain was hoping to reach a port as quickly as possible, in order to limit the amount of stress on the ship and to avoid metal fatigue that might lead to a break-up. He was balancing the threat of a broken weld versus breaking the ship in two. If he had complied with the engineer's request and dropped to 3 knots, the break-up would have happened anyway, but farther out to sea. It is likely that, while losing his life and that of the other seven crewmen in the bow, his decision made it possible for the lives of the other half to be saved. In contrast to what has been reported elsewhere, the broken weld had little to do with the ship being broken in half. Rather, the weld broke due to the same strain that caused the ship to break in half.

In 2011 the United States Coast Guard named its first 153-foot Fast Response Cutter after Bernard Webber. FRC's are the first class of cutter to be named after enlisted heroes.

Ben Foster claimed that the role was the most physically demanding of his career due to the amount of time working in cold water.

Post-production lasted well over a year. The film required nearly 1,000 visual effects shots.

There is mention of the term "pitch-poling", which refers to when a wave hits an underwater obstruction such as a sand bar and is flung upwards. If the nose of a boat were to hit that kind of wave that was carrying enough force, it could pick up the nose of the boat and flip it backwards end over end. The term comes from an ancient Scottish sport called the caber toss in which a man picks up a large, thick, heavy pole (a "caber"), holds it vertically and tosses it for distance. He heaves it up and forward with the bottom flipping forward as the top hits the ground and having enough velocity to flip over. Pitch-poling, as in "pitching a pole" is the Americanization of the term "caber toss."

Popular Dialogues

"John Stello: The old man don't know what he is doing. He sends you out to die. You can't make it over Chatham bar on a day like this. You can't stay afloat with half a ship neither. Bernie Webber: Well, Mr. Stello, in the Coast Guard to say you gotta go out. But they don't say you gotta come back in. That's regulation, you know."

"Ervin Maske: Please tell me we are taking this boat to a bigger boat."

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