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

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.

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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)

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