RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP (WIDESCREEN/FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1958
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Plot: The contrasting acting styles of Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster serve to increase the already high tension level of the WW2 drama Run Silent, Run Deep. Gable plays submarine commander 'Rich' Richardson, who assumes command of the USS Nerka. Because his previous sub was sunk by the Japanese under highly suspect circumstances, Richardson inspires nothing but animosity from his new crew. Particularly hostile is executive officer Lt. Jim Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster), who'd assumed that he was next in line to command the Nerka. Obsessed with tracking down the Japanese destroyer that sank his old sub, Richardson drives his crew mercilessly, and even disobeys direct orders from his own higher-ups. The Nerka manages to blast the Japanese vessel out of the waters, but in so doing the sub is placed in dire peril in enemy waters. In his desperate efforts to save the Nerka, Richardson at long last wins the respect of Bledsoe and the rest of the crew. Featured in the cast of Run Silent, Run Deep are Burt Lancaster's old circus partner Nick Cravat, and, in his unbilled movie debut,
• Cast: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter, Don Rickles, Nick Cravat, Joe Maross, Mary LaRoche, Eddie Foy III, Rudy Bond, Jimmy Bates, John Bryant, John Close, Wayne Dahmer, Joel Fluellen, John Gibson, Ken Lynch, Maurice McEndree, Russell Thorson, Skip Ward, H.M. Wynant, Robert Wise, John Gay, Edward L. Beach
• Director: Robert Wise
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, United Artists
• Media Format: Movie