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Victory for the Royal Navy,
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This review is from: The Battle of the River Plate (DVD)
I was a young boy when I first watched this movie that came out some 45 years ago. It made a lasting impression on me and I was thrilled to finally find its copy on DVD. I was even more delighted to see that the movie is just as excellent as I remembered.The battle of the River Plate was the first major engagement between the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine in 1939. Just before the outbreak of war, the pocket battle ship Graf Spee had been sent to the South Atlantic to sink British merchant vessels. It was engaged by a British task force consisting of cruisers HMS Achilles, HMS Ajax, and HMS Exeter. Although outgunned by the powerful guns of the German, the British ships engaged the battle and hit the German battleship who ran and sought refuge in neutral Uruguay. Under international law, the German ship could stay no longer than the time necessary to make her seaworthy. While everyone expected the Graf Spee to come out of the River Plate with all her guns firing at the British, the battle never took place. Graf Spee was scuttled at the limit of international waters, and admiral Langsdorff committed suicide. This was a prelude to the war at sea where the Royal Navy was never to be challenged directly by the powerful German battleships and was always to engage German war ships regardless of the odds. Made at a time when memories of WWII were still very much vivid, the movie presents a balanced portrait of the main characters in the drama. Admiral Langsdorff is not pictured as a Nazi thug but as a sailor who fought decently according to the law of the sea. (Incidentally, one can note that he never gives a Hitler salute throughout the movie). The production of this relatively old movie is just magnificent. There are beautiful images of the sea and of real ships, not models. For the occasion, the Royal Navy loaned some of its ships, including Achilles to the producers of the movie. For all those who are still fascinated by the battles at sea before the time of satellite surveillance and GPS, or those who simply like a good action movie, this is a movie not to be missed.
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Classic British WW2 Movie,
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This review is from: The Battle of the River Plate (DVD)
this movie is a piece of WW 2 history. If you are 'into' WW 2 then this is a good one to add to your collection.
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