Radar plot, range decreasing. Decreasing very rapidly. Range down to 22,000 yards. Doubled back on us, Sir! There she is, Sir!

Description: The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship. Cast: Captain Jonathan Shepard: Kenneth More Second Officer Anne Davis: Dana Wynter Kapitän Ernst Lindemann: Carl Möhner First Sea Lord - Sir Dudley Pound - Admiral of the Fleet: Laurence Naismith Assistant Chief of Naval Staff: Geoffrey Keen Admiral Günther Lutjens: Karel Stepanek Admiral Jack Tovey - Commander in Chief - HMS King George V: Michael Hordern Commander Richards: Maurice Denham Captain Banister: Michael Goodliffe Captain John Leech - HMS Prince of Wales: Esmond Knight Signals Officer: Jack Watling Commodore Wilfrid Patterson - HMS King George V: Jack Gwillim Captain Loben Mound - HMS Ark Royal: Mark Dignam Captain Robert Ellis - HMS Suffolk: Ernest Clark Captain Charles Larcom - HMS Sheffield: John Horsley Captain - HMS Solent - First Destroyer: Peter Burton Henry - First Workman: Sydney Tafler Captain Ralph Kerr - HMS Hood: John Stuart Admiral Lancelot Holland - HMS Hood: Walter Hudd Able Seaman Brown: Sean Barrett Edward R. Murrow: Edward R. Murrow Fighter Pilot: Robert Arnold Bridge Officer [HMS Solent]: Peter Avella Naval Officer: Joe Phelps Guard: Del Baker Able Seaman - Lookout on 'Suffolk': Michael Ripper Officer P.R.O.: John Barron Petty Officer in Phone Montage: Richard Beale Officer on the 'Bismarck': Victor Beaumont Lothar Balzar - Leutnant zur See: Michael Beint Signal Officer on the 'Ark Royal': Brandon Brady Young Seaman on 'Prince of Wales': Johnny Briggs A naval officer: Anthony Brothers Gunnery Officer on 'King George V': Robert Brown Naval Rating in Phone Montage: Mark Burns Dark Room Technician: Max Butterfield Bridge Officer [HMS King George V]: Dennis Carnell Seaman on 'Prince of Wales': Glyn Houston First Lieutenant on Destroyers: Peter Cellier Bridge Officer (HMS King George V): Vic Chapman Seaman on 'Ark Royal': David Hemmings Lookout - Second Destroyer: Michael Collins Pilot - RAF Operations Room: Noel Trevarthen War Room Officer: Fred Stroud Dexter: Robert Desmond Jenkins - 'King George V': Peter Dyneley Pilot - RAF Opeations Room: John Flint Signalman - 'Prince of Wales': Peter Forbes-Robertson Master of the Fleet - 'King George V': Tom Gill Airman in Phone Montage: Harold Goodwin Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck': Walter Gotell Miss Jackson - WRENS: Kathryn Greenaway Civilian Worker on 'Prince of Wales': Sam Kydd Lt. Becker on the 'Bismarck': John G. Heller Meteorological Officer on 'King George V': Ian Hendry Officer on Bridge of 'Prince of Wales': Ronald Hines Self - at Launch of 'Bismarck': Adolf Hitler Quartermaster - 'Bismarck': Alfred Hoffman Airman - 'Ark Royal': Charles Houston Agent in Norway: Patrick Jordan Navigating Officer on 'Prince of Wales': Edward Judd Commander - War Room: Hugh Latimer Firing Officer: Bernard Lee Rear Admiral Somers - Officer on 'King George V': Ronald Leigh-Hunt Undetermined Secondary Role: Jack Taylor Mail Clerk on 'Ark Royal': Sean Lynch Midshipman - 'Prince of Wales': Barry MacGregor Able Seaman, Final Scene: Victor Maddern Naval Rating: Colin McKenzie Captain - Second Destroyer: Hugh Moxey Air Vice Marshal: Russell Napier Operations Officer on 'Ark Royal': Anthony Oliver Officer of the Watch on 'Sheffield': Olaf Pooley Damage Control Officer on the 'Bismarck': George Pravda RAF Officer: Robin Ray Bridge Officer: Edwin Richfield Captain Lindemann: Robert Rietty Damage Control Officer: Frederick Schiller Winston Churchill: Norman Shelley Civilian Worker - 'Prince of Wales': Julian Somers Yeoman on King George V: Guy Standeven Petty Officer Williams: Graham Stark German Officer: Gordon Sterne Tom Shepard - Gunner - 'Ark Royal' Air Gunner: John Stride Air Commodore in Phone Montage: Donald Tandy Korvettenkapitan Adalbert Schneider: Peter Taylor Officer - HMS Sheffield: Reg Thomason German Rating - 'Bismarck': Ernst Walder Officer - 'King George V': John H. Watson Able Seaman - Final Scene: Ian Whittaker Torpedo Control Officer on First Destroyer: Brian Worth Written by: Edmund H. North, C.S. Forester Director: Lewis Gilbert Production: 20th Century Fox Release date: 11 Feb 1960