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Summary: The best thing about the movie is the tension
Review: This telling of the superbattleship Bismark's break-out into the N Atlantic takes place primarily from the point of view of a fleet officer responsible for the routing of all British shipping, and surface fleet assignments. Kenneth Moore plays the classic stiff upper-lipped British officer, but shows, surprisingly, how that is a facade as he weeps. There is surface fleet action, and obvious tension as the British fleet's primary purpose shifts to the location and pursuit of the Bismark. A great sea tale, well worth the time!
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This movie is gripping, almost totally accurate historically, and has a great musical score. I like how this movie actually makes the Germans appear militarily capable, which they are, and that it takes practically the entire British Navy to take the Bismarck down. A lot of movies make the Allies look invincible and the the Germans look like cannon fodder, so this movie is believable. Buy it if you can, because you'll want to watch it more than once!
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Summary: A good representation of a critical time in World War II.
Review: Sink the Bismarck is the story of the tremendous effort expended by Great Britain to locate and sink one ship in May 1941. The all out effort to find this ship and sink it is well dramatised as are the two battles which Bismarck and the Royal Navy fought. Kenneth More is excellent as the Captain in charge of coordinating the efforts to locate the German ship. I suspect More was able to model his charecter on people whom he had met during his own service in the Royal Navy during World War II. His manerisms are exactly suited to the role he plays. Overall a well done film that does justice to the historical events of May 1941. For a movie made in 1960, it has aged gracefully.
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Summary: A totally unbelievable war movie
Review: I am telling you, if you like sea battles..this is the one. I saw this movie when I was 7 and have watched it over and over again. Definitely a keeper in a video collection.
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Summary: Technically correct with flawed characterizations
Review: Overall good movie about an important naval battle. For the most part quite accurate in regards to the events leading up to and subsequent to the dramatic loss of HMS Hood. Names of the vessels and the models used are great. Serious misrepresentation of Admiral Lutgens and Capt. Lindemann on Bismarck. Majority of German naval officers were NOT Nazis! Grand Admiral Raider actually had some Jewish-descent officers in the Kriegsmarine. In any event a fine movie for it's time. Spielberg should remake this one (I wish)
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Summary: entertaining, but corny
Review: What amazed me most about this film was that the hokey special effects for the sea-battles were actually done quite well! The attempt to inject some human interest into this film (when the hard-as-nails Capt. More breaks down on learning his aviator son is safe after being reported missing) kind of spoils what would be an otherwise interesting sea-fable. The portrayals of the "Nazis" are comical, with the Bismarcks' Skipper being a nice, sensitive guy, und der uberadmiral Lutjens is the personification of evil: "Remember, men, dot u are NAZIS, und derefore ve cannot lose!!! Or something like that. Anyway, it's a pretty decent, if dated, movie.
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Summary: Prety good, if you like suspense in sea action
Review: In this movie, my favorite "A Night to Remember" star takes on the role of a British Admiralty officer and joins in the effort to sink the famous killer warship. Although I have only seen it once, and that one time was some years back, I remember enough about it to say that it was a good movie.
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Summary: Classic 1960 film tops most war films
Review: 1st of all Dana Wynter is a real "looker".
For all you losers who think the 1969 film The Battle of Britain is a good film, well, you are total easily manipulated fools. This film tells all. Nuff said.
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Summary: Excellent Movie!
Review: Sink the Bismark, 1960
This is one of my favorite war movies. First, because it tells the story of a momentous event, complete with a gripping human element. Secondly, the movie is much more accurate than most similar pieces and is family friendly and will easily be understood by most.
The story is simple, the Bismark is Nazi Germany's premier surface warship. In order for the Bismark to truly be effective it must break out of the Baltic and North Seas into the Atlantic. In the Atlantic it will be free to disrupt allied shipping and work in cohesion with other German naval units stationed on the coast of France.
This movie tracks the attempt of the Bismark's breakout from the vantage point of a narrator. We see glimpses of the German vantage point but the majority of the movie is dedicated to following the action from the British side. Regardless of the vantage point the message is clear: war is horrible, exacting and some things are worth dying for.
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Summary: Classic 1960 film tops most war films
Review: This fine film, made in 1960, does a fine job of re-creating the events surrounding the search for and eventual destruction of the pride of the German navy: the Bismarck. Veteran British actor Kenneth More stars as Captain Jonathan Shepard, a new officer who gets placed in charge of the hunt for the Bismarck in Britain's Naval Operations center. Shepard has a personal stake in seeing the Bismarck sunk. Bismarck's commander, Admiral Gunter Lutjens, played by Karel Stepanek, sunk Shepard's vessel earlier in the war. Dana Wynter stars as 2nd officer Anne Davis, an assistant to Capt. Shepard. A fictional implied but never shown romance develops between Shepard and Davis throughout the course of the film. Carl Mohner stars as Bismarck's Captain Lindemann. The battle scenes are excellent. One must remember when viewing this film that the special effects are from the 1960's, but that does nothing to detract from the excitement of the ship-to-ship combat scenes. The fight between the HMS Hood and Bismarck is the high point of the film. It was exciting to see the ships being straddled by the other's shells, and seeing the Hood blow up was especially thrilling. The historical correctness of the film was excellent except for a few minor details. For example, during the attack on the Bismarck by the British Swordfish torpedo planes, the movie shows two being destroyed when in reality none were lost. Also, the movie depicts a British destroyer being sunk by Bismarck. This is also incorrect as the Hood was the only British loss. Finally, the movie depicts Admiral Lutjens as being a staunt supporter of the Nazi party. This is also false. Lutjens was against Naziism, and refused to give the Nazi salute, instead preferring to use the old German navy salute. The movie also depicted a rather close relationship between Lutjens and Lindemann. This was also not the case. In reality, the two German commanders disagreed on many topics, and at one point during the heat of battle, Lindemann said to Lutjens that he refused to sit by while his ship was shot out from underneath him. Aside from these points, the historical aspect of the movie is very well done. I highly recommend this film. The acting is excellent and the battle scenes will keep you on the edge of your seat. Watch this great movie and experience the hunt for the most feared ship in the German navy.
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