The Battle of the River Plate
The tremendous story of the victory over the Graf Spee.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Henstooth Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Gregson, Anthony Quayle & Peter Finch | |
Performer: | Ian Hunter | |
Directed by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger |
Entertainment Reviews:
The miniature work is excellent and physical production impressive even as the filmmakers constantly deny the spectacle of battle to focus on the people...
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Seanax.com
The battle sequences, in which the lightweight British cruisers close in on the Graf Spee and force the enemy to take shelter in Montevideo harbor, are powerful, exciting and technically impressive.
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Variety
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Give the British filmmakers a good, rousing subject from their own naval history and they're almost certain to come up with a picture that proudly bespeaks the courage and audacity of a hero breed.
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New York Times
This account of the first of the war's major naval actions is straightforward, serious and made with a scrupulous concern to be fair to both sides.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Rating: 3/5 --
Not Powell and Emeric's greatest work, but still a cut above many '50s war movies.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: B- --
... a rather routine chronicle of the capture of the feared German battleship the Graf Spee.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Powell and Pressburger's final collaboration as The Archers was also, perhaps, their dullest.
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Time Out
Product Description:
A well-made war film about the first British Naval victory of the Second World War. Three British cruisers surround and destroy the German battleship, the Graf Spee. No longer distributed.
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Product Info
- UPC: 759731412520
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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