The Battle of the River Plate
The Battle of the River Plate (a.k.a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee in the United States) is a 1956 British war film in Technicolor and VistaVision by the writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Bernard Lee and Peter Finch. It was distributed worldwide by Rank Film Distributors Ltd.
Plot
In the early months of the Second World War, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine sends out merchant raiders to attack Allied shipping. The heavily armed German pocket battleship the Admiral Graf Spee sinks a British merchant vessel, the Africa Shell. The Africa Shell's crew is brought aboard the Admiral Graf Spee. The Admiral Graf Spee docks with its supply ship and more captured British seamen are brought aboard. Three weeks later, the Admiral Graf Spee sinks another British vessel, the Doric Star. Her crew is also brought aboard.
Cast
- Andrew Cruickshank
- Anthony Bushell
- Anthony Newley
- Anthony Quayle
- Barry Foster
- Bernard Lee
- Christopher Lee
- David Farrar
- Donald Moffat
- Douglas Wilmer
- George Murcell
- Ian Hunter
- Jack Gwillim
- John Gregson
- John Le Mesurier
- John Merivale
- John Schlesinger
- Michael Goodliffe
- Nigel Stock
- Patrick Macnee
- Peter Finch
- Peter Illing
- Robert Rietti
- Roger Delgado
- William Squire