Panique à Gibraltar (1953)

Original title

I sette dell'orsa maggiore

Directed by

Duilio Coletti

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Italian frogmen launch a daring underwater raid on a British naval base in 1941. The film follows their preparation and the dangerous mission to plant explosives on enemy ships.

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What happens

Hell Raiders of the Deep (Original Italian title: I sette dell'Orsa maggiore 'The Seven Men of Great Bear') is 1953 Italian film based on the events of the Raid on Alexandria in 1941 by frogmen of the Decima Flottiglia MAS human torpedoes. It was released in the United Kingdom as Human Torpedoes and in France and Belgium as Panique à Gibraltar (Panic in Gibraltar). It was directed by Duilio Coletti and produced by Carlo Ponti and Luigi De Laurentiis, with a score by Nino Rota and a screenplay by Giuseppe Berto and Marcantonio Bragadin (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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