Kenneth More
Captain Jonathan Shepard
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A film about the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship, the Bismarck, in 1941. Starring Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, and Carl Möhner, directed by Lewis Gilbert, based on a novel by C.S. Forester.
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- Action, Drama, History
- Lewis Gilbert
- 1960-02-11
Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the 1959 book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert.
Based on the true story of the hunt for the Nazi super-battleship Bismark, this film follows the valiant attempts of the British Admiralty's chief of operations, Captain Jonathan Shepard...
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- War
The main force of British ships (including battleships HMS Rodney and HMS King George V) finds Bismarck the next day, raining gunfire on her. Lutjens in his final moments insists to Lindemann that German forces will arrive to save them, but he dies when a shell destroys Bismarck's bridge.
