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DVD Release Date
• R1: May 18, 1999
• R2: 13 Nov 2000
Running Time
1 hour, 33 minutes
Country USA
Studio Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, United Artists
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Other Titles
• Run Silent Run Deep
• Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
• U 23 - Haie im Pazifik (1958)
• U 23 - Tödliche Tiefen (1958)
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Genre: War, World War II, Sea, Military, Suspense
Tagline: Gable and Lancaster make the seas boil in the battle adventure that hits like a torpedo!
Plot: "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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| Directed by |
Robert Wise
The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still |
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| John Gay
Separate Tables, Ivanhoe, Soldier Blue |
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| Cast |
Clark Gable
Gone with the Wind, It Happened One Night, Mutiny on the Bounty |
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12 Angry Men, While You Were Sleeping, All the President's Men | Brad Dexter
The Magnificent Seven, The Asphalt Jungle, Shampoo | | Nick Cravat
Cat Ballou, The Crimson Pirate, The Island of Dr. Moreau | Joe Maross
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