In May of 1941, British naval intelligence discovers that the German battleship Bismarck is sailing into the North Atlantic to destroy Allied convoys. In an underground war room in London, it falls to one man (Kenneth More) to coordinate the hunt for the Bismarck and destroy it. Based on the novel THE LAST NINE DAYS OF THE BISMARCK by C.S. Forester and directed by Lewis Gilbert (ALFIE). Unusual for a war film, this production focuses as much, if not more, on the back room planners as the combatants themselves. I'm not a big war movie fan so I found the war room's detailed planning and its characters more interesting than the battles themselves. The film has a fan base among war aficionados and I can see why. I preferred the relationship between the stoic Captain (More) and the tender hearted WREN (Dana Wynter) as she eventually thaws him out. With Laurence Naismith, Michael Hordern, Geoffrey Keen, Carl Mohner, Karel Stepanek and David Hemmings.
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