Category: War
All Genres: War, Action, Drama
Release Year: 1958
Country: USA
Runtime: 93
Rating: 4.3 (0)
Languages: English, Japanese
Director: Robert Wise
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: John Gay – (screenplay)
Edward L. Beach – (novel "Run Silent, Run Deep") (as Commander Edward L. Beach)

Produced by: Harold Hecht – producer
William Schorr – associate producer

Cast: Clark Gable – Cmdr. Rich Richardson
Burt Lancaster – Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Jack Warden – Yeoman 1st Class Mueller
Brad Dexter – Ens. Gerald Cartwright
Don Rickles – Petty Officer 1st Class Ruby
Nick Cravat – Russo
Joe Maross – Chief Kohler
Mary LaRoche – Laura Richardson
Eddie Foy III – Larto
Rudy Bond – Petty Officer 1st Class Cullen
Jimmy Bates – Jessie (uncredited)

Music: Franz Waxman
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Plot Outline: A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.
Plot: The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
For the last time (?) on the screen Music by Michel Legrand

Goofs: We know about 10 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: In one underwater shot you can see the side of the water tank.

Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Albert Salmi was first choice for the role of Mueller, but dropped out due to a personality clash with Clark Gable.
• Frank Gorshin was originally due to test for the role of Officer Ruby but refused to fly to the testing. Instead he drove and was involved in an accident, leaving him with a fractured skull. After 4 days in hospital he awoke to find the role had been given to Don Rickles.
• The destroyer Cmdr. Richardson (Clark Gable) is obsessed with finding, the “Akikaze”, was an actual Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer. She was commissioned on September 16, 1920, and was quite old for ship standards by the time World War II began. As such, she was used as a fast troop transport and convoy escort. On November 3, 1944 she was escorting the carrier “Junyo” and light cruiser “Kiso” toward Brunei in the Philippines. The American submarine “U.S.S. Pintado (SS-387)” attacked the formation and fired torpedoes at the “Junyo”, but the “Akikaze” deliberately intercepted the torpedoes intended for the carrier, causing her to blow up and sink with her entire crew of 148 officers and men.