El enemigo silencioso

El enemigo silencioso (1958)

The Silent Enemy

En 1941, el comandante Crabb llega a Gibraltar para organizar las defensas, pero sólo cuenta con dos buzos expertos para enfrentarse a los italianos que colocan minas en los cascos de los barcos aliados...

Fecha de estreno
1958-03-04
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (19)
Duración
1 h 47 min
Géneros
Historia, Bélica
Director
William Fairchild

Reparto

Curiosidades

  • Rodada en: Gibraltar y 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."

Leer en Wikipedia · Texto de Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Datos de Wikidata.

Recomendadas