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The Silent Enemy (1958) was a Action Film directed by William Fairchild and produced by John Woolf and James Woolf.

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This movie's opening credits state: "The underwater sequences in this film were photographed beneath the Mediterranean."
According to the book 'Brassey's Guide to War Films' by Alun Evans, during this movie's theatrical season, there were " . . . strong (and never disproved) rumours at the time of its release that the film's real-life hero, Commander Crabb See: Lionel Crabb, had mysteriously died while diving to spy on a Soviet warship visiting Britain."
This movie went into production about a year after the much publicized disappearance of the movie's real life lead character, Lionel "Buster" Crabb OBE, GM (born 28 January 1909). Lionel Crabb was presumed dead on 19 April 1956 due to an alleged encounter from the Cold War.
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