The Silent Enemy

The Silent Enemy (1958)

Human Torpedoes vs. Battleships!

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.

Date of release
1958-03-04
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
History, War
Director
William Fairchild

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Gibraltar and Malta

The Silent Enemy is a black and white 1958 British action film, directed by William Fairchild and starring Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, Michael Craig and John Clements. Based on Marshall Pugh's 1956 book Commander Crabb, the film follows the publicity created by Lionel Crabb's mysterious disappearance and likely death during a Cold War incident two years earlier .The film depicts events in Gibraltar harbour during the World War II Italian frogman and manned torpedo attacks, although the film's depiction of the events is highly fictionalised. It was the first Universal Pictures film in SuperScope.

Production

The film was announced in June 1957. Filming took place in England, Malta and Gibraltar. Star Laurence Harvey regularly worked for Romulus Films, who produced the movie.

Harvey was injured in the leg and hospitalised during filming in Malta.

Michael Craig had been suspended by the Rank Organisation for refusing the lead in The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958) but was removed from the project after James Woolf of Romulus Films offered Craig's annual salary to Rank. Craig said that Laurence Harvey "was good company, generous to his friends and, in spite of his reputation as a user, I liked him a lot."

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