Torpedo Bay (1963)

Original title

Beta Som

Directed by

Bruno Vailati, Charles Frend

Genre

war film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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How it feels

During World War Two, Italian submarines use a base in Bordeaux. The film follows the crew as they carry out missions in the Atlantic. It is based on real events.

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What happens

Torpedo Bay is a 1963 war film directed by Charles Frend and Bruno Vailati and starring James Mason. The story is based on events that took place at Betasom, a submarine base established at Bordeaux by the Italian Navy during World War II. The film was released as Beta Som, the Italian language acronym meaning Bordeaux Sommergibile. Phonetically B (for Bordeaux) is Beta and SOM is an abbreviation for 'Sommergibile' which is the Italian for submarine. In the United States, American International Pictures released it as a double feature with Commando in April 1964. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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