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Open fire, Captain. - Open fire. - Fire!

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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