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Powell and Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate is an old-school British war film, which in telling the true story of a key naval engagement from early in WWII successfully balances factual accuracy with spectacle. The German Battleship Graf Spee posed a terrible menace to Allied merchant convey vessels in the South Atlantic, until it was hunted by three British cruisers to Montevideo. Lending the film authenticity is the use of British navy ships, including the HMS Cumberland recreating its own role in the battle. The action lacks the slickness of modern war adventures, but there is a sense of excitement, scale and above all sincerity, refreshing after seeing history shamelessly rewritten in such pictures as U-571 (2000). Peter Finch is exceptionally good as the German Captain Langsdorff, who far from a stereotypical Nazi is given due credit as a brilliant commander. The rest of the large cast is fine, and while the drama-documentary style marks a break from Powell and Pressburger's more impressionistic films, this nevertheless makes for a lavishly shot companion to their earlier wartime classics, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Fortunately, this is the full-length British cut running approximately 13 minutes longer than the abridged American version.--Gary S Dalkin
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Documentary-style account of the trapping, in 1939, of the German battleship 'Graf Spee' in the South Atlantic by three British cruisers.
Powell and Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate is an old-school British war film, which in telling the true story of a key naval engagement from early in WWII successfully balances factual accuracy with spectacle. The German Battleship Graf Spee posed a terrible menace to Allied merchant convey vessels in the South Atlantic, until it was hunted by three British cruisers to Montevideo. Lending the film authenticity is the use of British navy ships, including the HMS Cumberland recreating its own role in the battle. The action lacks the slickness of modern war adventures, but there is a sense of excitement, scale and above all sincerity, refreshing after seeing history shamelessly rewritten in such pictures as U-571 (2000). Peter Finch is exceptionally good as the German Captain Langsdorff, who far from a stereotypical Nazi is given due credit as a brilliant commander. The rest of the large cast is fine, and while the drama-documentary style marks a break from Powell and Pressburger's more impressionistic films, this nevertheless makes for a lavishly shot companion to their earlier wartime classics, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Fortunately, this is the full-length British cut running approximately 13 minutes longer than the abridged American version.--Gary S Dalkin
Synopsis
Documentary-style account of the trapping, in 1939, of the German battleship 'Graf Spee' in the South Atlantic by three British cruisers.
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