Sink the Bismarck! 1960
During the early days of World War II, the German battleship Bismarck, escorted by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, attempts a breakout into the Atlantic. The Royal Navy races to locate and sink the formidable vessel—armed with eight 15‑inch guns and capable of out‑gunning any convoy ship—before it can threaten the vital supply lanes that sustain the British Isles.
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Carl Möhner
Captain Lindemann - 'Bismarck'
David Hemmings
Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Walter Gotell
Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Graham Stark
Petty Officer Williams (uncredited)
Geoffrey Keen
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (A.C.N.S.)
Ian Hendry
Meteorological Officer on 'King George V' (uncredited)
Michael Hordern
Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief - 'King George'
John Stride
Tom Shepard, Captain Shepard's son, TAG - Ark Royal's Swordfish Squadron (uncredited)
Esmond Knight
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
Bernard Lee
Firing Officer (uncredited)
Dana Wynter
WRNS Second Officer Anne Davis
Michael Collins
Lookout - Second Destroyer (uncredited)
Ernest Clark
Captain Ellis - 'Suffolk'
Edward R. Murrow
Himself - Edward R. Murrow
Sean Lynch
Mail Clerk - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
John Bailey
Naval Officer (uncredited)
Mark Burns
Naval Rating on Phone (uncredited)
Robert Brown
Gunnery Officer - 'King George V' (uncredited)
Michael Ripper
Able Seaman - Lookout on 'Suffolk' (uncredited)
Laurence Naismith
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound
Jack Gwillim
Captain Wilfrid Patterson - 'King George V'
Harold Goodwin
Airman on Phone (uncredited)
Julian Somers
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Michael Goodliffe
Captain Banister
Jack Watling
RNVR Signals Officer
Kenneth More
Captain Jonathan Shepard
Sydney Tafler
Henry - First Workman, 'Prince of Wales'
Maurice Denham
Commander Richards
Donald Churchill
Able Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Peter Burton
Captain Philip Vian - 4th Destroyer of Flotilla
Patrick Jordan
SOE Agent in Norway (uncredited)
Michael Sarne
Hoffman - 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Peter Cellier
First Lieutenant - Destroyer (uncredited)
Sean Barrett
Able Seaman Brown
Richard Beale
Petty Officer on Phone (uncredited)
Ronald Hines
Officer on Bridge of 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
George Pravda
Damage Control Officer - Bismarck (uncredited)
John Barron
Officer P.R.O (uncredited)
Peter Dyneley
Commander Jenkins (uncredited)
Mark Dignam
Captain Maund - 'Ark Royal'
Edward Judd
Navigating Officer - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Peter Forbes-Robertson
Signalman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Michael Balfour
Able Seaman - Lookout on 'Suffolk' (uncredited)
Glyn Houston
Able Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Edwin Richfield
Bridge Officer (uncredited)
John Horsley
Captain - 'Sheffield'
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Somers - Officer 'King George V' (uncredited)
Olaf Pooley
Officer of the Watch - 'Sheffield' (uncredited)
Roy Castle
Able Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Karl Stepanek
Admiral Lutjens - 'Bismarck'
Walter Hudd
Admiral Holland - 'Hood'
Victor Maddern
Able Seaman Outside Admiralty (uncredited)
Robert Desmond
Dexter (uncredited)
Johnny Briggs
Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Norman Shelley
Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited)
Victor Beaumont
Officer - 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Charles Houston
Airman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
John G. Heller
Lt. Becker on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
Cameron Hall
Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)
Hugh Latimer
Commander - War Room (uncredited)
Russell Napier
Air Vice Marshal (uncredited)
John Stuart
Captain Kerr - 'Hood'
Max Butterfield
Dark Room Technician (uncredited)
Thomas Waldron Price
Flag Lieutenant to First Sea Lord
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In February 1939, Nazi Germany’s most powerful battleship, Bismarck, is launched, signaling a new era of naval power. In May 1941, British intelligence spots Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen poised to sail into the North Atlantic to threaten Allied convoys. From a secret war room in London, Captain Jonathan Shepard, Kenneth More a widower whose son serves in the Navy, coordinates the hunt with the help of Anne Davis, Dana Wynter, a WRNS Second Officer who is wary of his ice-cold exterior. The two German ships collide with HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales in the Denmark Strait, and a brutal gun battle erupts.
The Hood erupts in a devastating explosion, a shock that travels through both fleets. The Prince of Wales takes a severe hit, its bridge destroyed as Bismarck returns fire, while the Prince of Wales retreats behind a smoke screen. Prinz Eugen veers off, and Bismarck is shadowed by radar-equipped cruisers HMS Suffolk and HMS Norfolk, forcing the German task force to maneuver for safety. Across London, Winston Churchill, Norman Shelley, issues the remarkable order to “sink the Bismarck.”
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With Prinz Eugen slipping away toward Brest, Bismarck turns to provide cover as allied ships press the chase. An air assault from HMS Ark Royal leaves Bismarck with damaged fuel tanks, yet the battleship remains largely seaworthy. In the meantime, Captain Shepard’s personal stake intensifies when his own son’s plane goes missing, pushing him to gamble on a calculated intercept. He commits a large force to the pursuit, and the risk pays off when Bismarck is spotted steering toward the French coast. The Ark Royal’s Swordfish squadron makes two critical attempts to strike. In the first pass, the torpedoes misidentify HMS Sheffield as the target, and the magnetic fuzes prove unreliable, many detonating harmlessly in the sea.
Returning to the carrier, the pilots switch to conventional detonators for the second strike, and a successful hit near the stern cripples Bismarck’s rudder. A desperate turn of events follows as the battleship loops in circles through the night.
Two British destroyers close in and flood the crippled ship with torpedoes; one lucky hit sinks a destroyer, and the others press the attack. The main force—the battleships HMS Rodney and HMS King George V—finally closes and delivers devastating shells. Admiral Gunther Lütjens, aboard Bismarck, is killed when a shell tears into the ship’s bridge, and the surviving officers abandon ship as the hull succumbs. On King George V, Admiral John Tovey orders Dorsetshire to unleash torpedoes, sealing the fate of the German heavy cruiser. The Bismarck tilts and sinks beneath the waves, and Patterson, the King George V’s captain, lowers his head in the solemn moment. “Well, gentlemen, let’s go home,” his measured, authoritative command lingering as the spectacle ends.
Back in London, Shepard finally receives a moment of personal clarity when he asks Second Officer Davis to dinner, only to realize it is nine o’clock in the morning and the two end up heading out for breakfast instead. The mission’s toll lingers, but the story closes with a quiet sense of resolve and closure for those who lived through the chase.
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