The Valiant

The Valiant (1962)

Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!

Date of release
1962-06-13
TMDB
8.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, War
Director
Roy Ward Baker

Casting

Interesting facts

The Valiant is a 1962 British-Italian drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring John Mills, Ettore Manni, Roberto Risso, Robert Shaw, and Liam Redmond. It is based on the Italian manned torpedo attack which seriously damaged the two British battleships Valiant and Queen Elizabeth, the destroyer HMS Jervis and the oil tanker Sagona at the harbour of Alexandria on 18-19 December 1941.

Production

Roy Ward Baker said he was approached by John Pennington with the script by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse. "It was a good script," says Baker. "The two sailors were given some sour wartime humour." The producers wanted John Mills to play the captain and asked Baker, "to contact him because we'd made so many pictures together. So, I did and with a certain amount of reluctance Johnny agreed to do it.

Most of the finance came from Italy, where the movie was shot with a British-Italian crew.

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