BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE

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• Release Year: 1956
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, War
• Plot: THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE (PURSUIT OF THE GRAF SPEE); Two weeks after the start of WWII, a powerful German pocket battleship, the Graf Spee, sails the South Atlantic destroying Allied merchant ships at will. Captained by one of Germany's most brilliant naval officers, the Graf Spee, with her superior speed and artillery, appears and disappears, sinking ship after ship. When the Allies are finally able to pinpoint its location a trap is set, pitting British intelligence against a wily and powerful military opponent.
• Cast: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee, Lionel Murton, Anthony Bushell, Peter Illing, Michael Goodliffe, Patrick MacNee, John Chandos, Douglas Wilmer, William Squire, Roger Delgado, Andrew Cruickshank, Christopher Lee, Edward Atienza, April Olrich, Peter Finch, María Mercedes, John Schlesinger, John Le Mesurier, David Farrar, John Merivale, Douglas Argent, Vincent Ball, Ken Barker, Raymond Barrie, Terence Bayler, Alan Beale, Richard Beale, David Benson, John Britton, Robert Bruce, Anna Burden, Richard Burrell, Tony Burton, David Cameron, Alan Casley, Ronald Clarke, Michael Collins, James Copeland, Tita Dane, Gron Davies, Denton De Gray, Maxwell Denne, Patrick Dove, Peter Dyneley, Eynon Evans, Jack Faint, Peter Fontaine, John Forbes-Robertson, Frank Forsyth, Barry Foster, Colin Free, Richard George, Keith Grieve, Lucia Guillon, Peter Halliday, Ken Hayward, Patrick Horgan, Helen Horton, Mary Jones, Kerry Jordan, Patrick Jordan, Marvin Kane, Howard Lang, Frank Lloyd, Cyril Luckham, Kenneth Luckman, Ivor Mairants, Alan Masterson, Jack Mayne, Lane Meddick, John Merrivale, Kenneth Midwood, Donald Moffat, George Murcell, Anthony Newley, Joseph O'Conner, David Paltenghi, Conrad Phillips, Ambrosine Phillpotts, Columba Powell, Edward Powell, Irene Prador, Peter Prowse, Roy Purcell, Rive Rola, Alan Rolfe, David Rose, Peter Scott, Peter Smallwood, Muriel Smith, Julian Somers, Barry Steele, Graham Stewart, Nigel Stock, Alan Townsend, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
• Director: Michael Powell
• Runtime: 1:59
• Company: Hens Tooth
• Media Format: Movie