The Battle Of The River Plate (Original)
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Set during the opening years of World War II when the Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open and the British Isles supplied. Of great danger were the numerous surface/commerce raiders that had slipped out of German waters just before war was declared. These included battleships, heavy cruisers and auxiliary cruisers such as “Bismarck”, “Scharnhorst”, “Gneissenau”, “Admiral Graf Spee”, “Prinz Eugen” and “Atlantis”. These ships were supplied by axis cargo ships or tankers and primarily attacked and sank merchant shipping. They could and did strike anywhere and everywhere. This story is loosely based on the story of one such ship, the “Admiral Graf Spee”, and how 3 lightly armed Royal Navy cruisers with mere 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on this powerful “pocket battleship” armed with 11 inch guns. The Royal Navy cruisers should have been blown out of the water before they could fire a single shot by the longer range 11 inch guns but …
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Title: The Battle Of The River Plate
This is 100% Genuine product.
Region: 2
Important: A lot of DVD players around now are region free – which play any DVD region. It completely depends on what DVD player you have.
We actually have a number of regular customers based in the US, Canada and Australia who never have problems with our region 2 discs.
Format: DVD
Plot:
Set during the opening years of World War II when the Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open and the British Isles supplied. Of great danger were the numerous surface/commerce raiders that had slipped out of German waters just before war was declared. These included battleships, heavy cruisers and auxiliary cruisers such as "Bismarck", "Scharnhorst", "Gneissenau", "Admiral Graf Spee", "Prinz Eugen" and "Atlantis". These ships were supplied by axis cargo ships or tankers and primarily attacked and sank merchant shipping. They could and did strike anywhere and everywhere. This story is loosely based on the story of one such ship, the "Admiral Graf Spee", and how 3 lightly armed Royal Navy cruisers with mere 6 and 8 inch guns boldly took on this powerful "pocket battleship" armed with 11 inch guns. The Royal Navy cruisers should have been blown out of the water before they could fire a single shot by the longer range 11 inch guns but …
Tagline: The tremendous story of the victory over the Graf Spee.
Genres: War
Category: Feature Length
Spoken Language(s): English, Deutsch, Español
Certification / MPAA Film Rating: G
Other MPAA Film Ratings: 12, U
Rating: 6.1
Vote Count: 9
Status: Released
UK Release Date: June 11, 2007
Primary Year: 2007
IMDB Link: tt0048990
Runtime: 119min | 1h 59min
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Production Companies: The Archers
Alternative Titles: Pursuit of the Graf Spee, Graf Spee
Videos: The Battle Of The River Plate (Extract) 1956
- John Gregson – Captain Bell, H.M.S. Exeter
- Anthony Quayle – Commodore Harwood, H.M.S. Ajax
- Peter Finch – Captain Langsdorff, Admiral Graf Spee
- Ian Hunter – Captain Woodhouse, H.M.S. Ajax
- Jack Gwillim – Captain Parry, H.M.S. Achilles
- Bernard Lee – Captain Dove, M.S. Africa Shell
- Lionel Murton – Mike Fowler
- Anthony Bushell – Sir Millington Drake, British Minister, Montevideo
- Peter Illing – Dr. Guani, Foreign Minister, Uruguay
- Michael Goodliffe – Captain McCall R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires
- Italian – IT
- Spanish – ES
- Mandarin – CN
- Hebrew – IL
- French – FR
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