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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, French, Subtitled, Behind the Scenes Footage, Trailers, Black & White, Spanish
"Rich" Richardson (Clark Gable) is a hard-driving, dedicated submarine officer with a single-minded purpose--to seek out and smash the Japanese destroyer he believes sunk his former ship. Given a new command, Richardson drills his men to the point of mutiny as he relentlessly trains them for the battle ahead. At last, word comes of the destroyer's position, and disobeying orders, Richardson finally confronts his foe, unaware than an even greater enemy lurks nearby...one who's been targeting him for a watery grave. Co-starring Burt Lancaster as Gable's executive officer, this gripping WWII adventure thriller set a new standard for submarine pictures. "Severely, nail-bitingly tense" (The New York Times), Run Silent, Run Deep is the most exciting film about the "silent service" ever made.
"A taut, exciting drama of submarine warfare." Variety
"One of the great WW2 sub pictures." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"Severely, nail-bitingly tense." New York Times
Editor's Note
"Run silent, run deep" is a term that accurately describes the mission of the submarine in this tense World War II drama. Commander Richardson (Clark Gable) is the only survivor when his sub is hit by a notorious Japanese destroyer dubbed Bongo Pete in the Bongo Straits of Japan. Back at Pearl Harbor, Richardson obsessively plays out strategies that would have saved his crew. When he is reassigned a new ship in the Pacific, he must face old demons as well as the sub's younger executive officer who was slated for captain, Lt. Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster). Bledsoe has the support of his crew and locks horns easily with Richardson, but when the captain disobeys navy orders to stay clear of the Bongo Straits, taking the crew right in to go after Bongo Pete, there is very nearly a mutiny. RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP is marked by strong performances, particularly by Gable, and a taut script. The scenes of the rigorous sub drills the captain puts his crew through are intensive and exceptional.
| Features | French Subtitles | | Interactive Menus | | ÒBehind The ScenesÓ Booklet | | Dolby Digital Mono | | English Subtitles | | Stardard Format | | Widescreen Format | | Theatrical Trailer |
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 8/14/2001 |
| Running Time: 93 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1958 | | Catalog ID: 907500 | | UPC: 00027616750020 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
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| | Professional Reviews | The Motion Picture Guide 0 of 10
Gable...is plainly too old for his role, but he makes the most of it with a very good performance. The entire film, in fact, is one of the better submarine dramas ever made, tense and claustrophobic, and--in defiance of the Hollywood dictum that no movie without a love interest can succeed--a minimum of dalliances back at the base.
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