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Sink the Bismarck! (1960) was a Action - Drama Film directed by Lewis Gilbert .

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Sink the Bismarck!

By Beatrice on Mar 6, 2017 From Flickers in Time

Sink the Bismarck! Directed by Lewis Gilbert Written by Edmund H. North from a book by C.S. Forrester 1960/UK/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation First viewing/YouTube This WWII sea battle epic could have been so much more compelling than it was. This true story was changed by insertin... Read full article


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[to his assistant Anne Davis, after the battle]
Captain Jonathan Shepard: Take a message: "Request pleasure of the company of Second Officer Anne Davis at dinner."


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The opening of the film shows actual newsreel footage of the 'Bismarck' ship when it was launched to a Nazi crowd in Hamburg, Germany, in 1939.
Kenneth More was offered The Guns Of Navarone because of this film.
Prior to the release of the movie, a song of the same title sung by Johnny Horton was released in the United States to promote the film. This song never appears in the actual film. Excerpts from the song were used in the US trailer.
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