Product Information
Documentary-style account of the trapping, in 1939, of the German battleship 'Graf Spee' in the South Atlantic by three British cruisers.Product Identifiers
EAN5037115041432
eBay Product ID (ePID)3946696
Product Key Features
ActorBernard Lee, Ian Hunter, Kenneth more, John Gregson, Peter Finch, Anthony Quayle
Film/TV TitleBattle of the River Plate
DirectorMichael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
FormatDVD
Release Year2003
LanguageEnglish
Additional Product Features
CertificateU
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationTen days before the start of WWII, Graf Spee, Germany's famed warship under the leadership of Hans Langsdorff (Peter Finch), attempts to halt Allied merchant shipping in the South Atlantic. After a defeated allied craft manages to radio its coordinates before sinking, British naval forces begin playing a cat-and-mouse game with the feared German warship, leading to Langsdorff and his crew hiding out in Montevideo.
ScreenwriterArnold Pressburger, Michael Powell
Sound sourceMono
Movie/TV TitleBattle Of The River Plate