Human Torpedoes
Human Torpedoes | |
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Directed by | Antonio Leonviola Carlo Lizzani (uncredited) |
Written by | Marc-Antonio Bragadin Gian Giacomo Cossa |
Produced by | Carlo Ponti Dino De Laurentiis |
Music by | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | December 29, 1954 |
Running time | 87 minutes |
Siluri umani (internationally released as Human Torpedoes) is a 1954 Italian war film credited to Antonio Leonviola, who abandoned production and was substituted by director Carlo Lizzani (uncredited).[1] The movie depicts the WWII 1941 raid on Souda Bay by Italian Navy frogmen on the Royal Navy's HMS York heavy cruiser and a Norwegian oil tanker.
One of the military advisors to the film was former admiral Marcantonio Bragadin.[1]
Cast[]
- Raf Vallone: Carlo Ferri
- Franco Fabrizi: Antonio
- Ettore Manni: Marco
- Andrea Checchi: Giorgio
- Elena Varzi: Anna
- Enrico Maria Salerno: Virgilio
- Nerio Bernardi: Capitano Mauri
- Emilio Cigoli: Admiral
- Christian Marquand: Paolo
- Carlo Pedersoli: Magrini
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Categories:
- 1954 films
- 1950s war drama films
- Italian-language films
- World War II films based on actual events
- Italian Campaign of World War II films
- World War II submarine films
- Italian war drama films
- Italian films
- Italian World War II films
- 1950s Italian film stubs