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Pirate Submarine (1951)

Pirate Submarine poster
Original title
Casabianca
Directed by
Georges Péclet
Genre
drama film, war film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A French submarine crew fights in World War Two. Their missions and struggles at sea drive the story.

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What happens

Casabianca is a 1951 French war drama film directed by Georges Péclet and starring Pierre Dudan, Gérard Landry and Alain Terrane. It portrays the story of the French submarine Casabianca in World War Two. It is also known as Pirate Submarine and was released in the United States by Lippert Pictures in 1952. It was made in French and released in a dubbed English version. The French Navy submarine Le Glorieux, a sister ship of Casabianca, was used in the making of the film. Exteriors were shot in Algiers in French Algeria and the naval port of Toulon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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