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Died. Vice Admiral Gordon Campbell, 67, one of Britain's top naval heroes in World War I, winner of the Victoria Cross after commanding one of the Royal Navy's top-secret "Q" ships (armed U-boat hunters disguised as defenseless freighters); of a heart ailment; near London...
...touches The Cruel Sea communicates the breathless silence of perilous halts in mid-ocean for rescues or repairs, and there are two scenes remarkable for stark visual impact-the sinking of H.M.S. Compass Rose, and the running down of floating survivors in a vain attempt to destroy a U-boat. Impressive also is the film's attention to detail; the viewer becomes completely familiar with the Compass Rose, the radar screen on the bridge, the pistons in the engine room, and he begins to listen himself for the sonar pings that warn of a nearby U-boat...
...future, the Navy has apparently relegated to the second team its most effective weapon in the Pacific melee-the submarine. Perhaps some boning up on naval history will remind the Navy that both the Kaiser and Hitler came very close to winning two entirely different world conflicts with the U-boat ... It would be prudent and appropriate for the Navy to put at least equal emphasis on undersea warfare that it is now placing on aviation...
...Corp.; Stratford Pictures), based on Nevil Shute's 1940 novel, is done in the typically tightlipped, understated style of the best British movies. It tells oi a World War II Royal Air Force lieutenant who is mistakenly believed to have sunk a British submarine instead of a Nazi U-boat, and of how he is ultimately cleared of the charge...
Stop the Ship. Water Police Sergeant Ernst Mangold, a former U-boat skipper, was first into action. His nippy little launch slid alongside the Raman. "Halt," ordered Mangold, but the Raman plowed on. The cops fired a volley of Very flares and turned their searchlight on the tanker's bridge. Still no response from the Raman. Mangold and his men swarmed up the Raman's sides, only to be deluged by an avalanche of cold water from the tanker's sea hoses. Sergeant Mangold finally made it aboard and stomped to the tanker's bridge...