Run Silent, Run Deep seems generally more realistic than some of the movies of the submarine movie genre. Based on a book by a navy sub commander, the movie takes pains to show the procedures the men on the sub follow as they train for battle and learn to deploy their “fish” (torpedoes). Apparently, director Robert Wise hired a bunch of WWII vets to train his cast, and other vets who saw the movie later praised it for its accuracy. Compared to the special effects possible today, some of the effects in the film seem a bit creaky now, but they’re never comically so. Anyway, all of the technical veracity and battle photography is really just background for the emotional fireworks between the stars of the film, Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster.
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