The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
- Directed by
- Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Genre
- war film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 71 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A British naval squadron tracks down a German pocket battleship in the South Atlantic early in World War Two. The film follows the commanders on both sides as they prepare for and fight a sea battle.
statelyrestrainedpatriotictensemethodicalsomberold-fashionedbrisk
What happens
The Battle of the River Plate (a.k.a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee in the United States) is a 1956 British war film in Technicolor and VistaVision by the writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Bernard Lee and Peter Finch. It was distributed worldwide by Rank Film Distributors Ltd. The film's storyline concerns the Battle of the River Plate, an early World War II naval engagement in 1939 between a Royal Navy force of three cruisers and the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
Submarine X-1 (1968)
Gift Horse (1952)
Battle Stations (1956)
Das Boot (1981)
Above Us the Waves (1955)
The Cruel Sea (1953)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.