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Run Silent, Run Deep is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Wise released in USA on 27 march 1958 with Clark Gable

Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)

Run Silent, Run Deep
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Released in USA 27 march 1958
Length 1h33
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Action
Rating72% 3.647333.647333.647333.647333.64733

Run Silent, Run Deep is a 1958 film starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, based on the novel of the same name by Commander (later Captain) Edward L. Beach, Jr.. The title refers to "silent running", a submarine stealth tactic. The story describes World War II submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean, and deals with themes of vengeance, endurance, courage, loyalty and honor, and how these can be tested during time of war.

Bosley Crowther, writing in the New York Times, called it "a straight tale of undersea adventure, all-male and all-submarine ... [that] has the hard, cold ring of truth", with "dangerous adventures [that] are severely, nail-bitingly tense" until "the ultimate showdown ... that keeps one forward on the chair." To the extent that the events depicted might appear hard to believe, he cited the credentials of the novel's author and noted that "they look more like the real thing in good old black-and-white." In addition to Gable and Lancaster playing the leads, the film also features Jack Warden as well as the film debut of Don Rickles. Robert Wise directed.

United Artists promoted the film as a combination of the obsessiveness of Moby Dick's Captain Ahab and the shipboard rivalry found in Mutiny on the Bounty.

Beach did not think highly of the film. He later said that the film company bought only the title and was not interested in producing an accurate depiction of the theme and plot of his novel.

Synopsis

The World War II U.S. Navy submarine commander P.J. Richardson (Clark Gable) has an obsession with a Japanese destroyer that has sunk three boats in the Bungo Straits, including his previous command. He persuades the Navy Board to give him a new submarine command with the provision that his executive officer, also known as the XO or the "exec", be someone who has just returned from active sea patrol. He single-mindedly trains the crew of his new boat, the USS Nerka, to return to the Bungo Straits and sink the destroyer, captained by a crafty ex-submariner nicknamed Bungo Pete. Richardson's executive officer, Lieutenant Jim Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster), is worried about the safety of his boat and his crew. Bledsoe is also seething with resentment at Richardson and the Navy leadership for denying him command of the Nerka, which he believes should have been his.

Actors

Clark Gable

(Cmdr, Richardson)
Burt Lancaster

(Lt. Jim Bledsoe)
Jack Warden

(Yeoman 1st Class Mueller)
Brad Dexter

(Cartwright)
Don Rickles

(Quartermaster 1st Class Ruby)
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