Submarine X-1 (1968)

Directed by

William A. Graham

Genre

war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1943, a British naval commander trains a crew to pilot small submarines for a dangerous mission. They plan to sneak into a Norwegian fjord and destroy a German battleship.

tensesuspensefulgrittyseriousmethodicalunderwaterwar-torn

What happens

Submarine X-1 is a 1968 British war film directed by William Graham and starring James Caan and David Sumner. It was written by Donald S. Sanford and Guy Elmes based on a story by John C. Champion and Edmund H. North. It is loosely based on the Operation Source attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in 1943. Lt. Commander Richard Bolton must lead a group of midget submarines in an attack on a German battleship. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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