Submarine Attack
Submarine Attack, aka La Grande Speranza, the Great Hope, Torpedo Zone | |
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Directed by | Duilio Coletti |
Written by | Oreste Biancoli, , Duilio Coletti, Ennio De Concini |
Produced by | Duilio Coletti, Excelsa Film |
Starring | Lois Maxwell, Renato Baldini, Folco Lulli |
Cinematography | Leonida Barboni |
Edited by | Giuliana Attenni |
Music by | Nino Rota |
Production company | Excelsa Film |
Distributed by | Minerva Film (English version) |
Release date | 1954 |
Running time | 86 minutes (English version) |
Country | Italy |
Languages | Italian, dubbed into English |
La Grande Speranza (The Big Hope), retitled Submarine Attack and Torpedo Zone in English, is an Italian anti-war film starring Lois Maxwell, Renato Baldini and Earl Cameron. It won the Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin, and the OCIC Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.[1] Marcantonio Bragadin was an adviser on the film, which was shot inside and on the deck of a real submarine.
Plot summary[]
An Italian submarine captain conducts successful attacks on enemy merchant shipping in the eastern Atlantic Ocean during World War II, and then rescues the survivors of his victims, including a member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (and a dog). The captain's compulsion to save his victims culminates in his taking aboard 24 additional Danish merchant seamen; with no space down below, they are accommodated under the walkway outside the hull, at risk of drowning if the submarine is forced to submerge. He then sails the survivors hundreds of miles across the open ocean on the surface to put them ashore in the Azores.
Cast[]
- Lois Maxwell - Lt. Lily Donald
- Renato Baldini - The Submarine Commandanti
- - Officer
- Aldo Bufi Landi - Lieutenant
- Earl Cameron - Johnny Brown, POW
- Carlo Delle Piane - Ciccio
- - Jean Cartier
- José Jaspe - Spanish POW
- Paolo Panelli
- - Robert Steiner
- Folco Lulli - Nostromo, First Mate
References[]
- ^ "4th Berlin International Film Festival: In Competition". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
External links[]
- 1954 films
- 1950s war films
- Films directed by Duilio Coletti
- Films scored by Nino Rota
- Italian films
- Italian-language films
- World War II submarine films
- Anti-war films about World War II
- Italian war films
- Minerva Film films
- Italian World War II films
- World War II film stubs
- 1950s Italian film stubs