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U-571 [VHS]
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Genre | Military & War, Action & Adventure |
Format | Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Special Edition |
Contributor | David Ayer, Sam Montgomery, Jake Weber, Will Estes, David Keith, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Dino De Laurentiis, Bill Paxton, Jonathan Mostow, Tom Guiry, Erik Palladino, Lucio Trentini, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Hal Lieberman, Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel, Alan Collis, Jack Noseworthy See more |
Language | English, German |
Runtime | 1 hour and 56 minutes |
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VHS TAPE FORMAT. 2001, Universal, 1 hour and 57 minutes, color. Stereo surround sound. Digitally recorded. Special 21-minute behind-the-scenes focus on the making of the film, featuring interviews with cast and crew. A top-notch group of actors, including Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, and David Keith make this project notable indeed, as they disguise themselves as Nazis to capture a damaged Nazi U-boat. They are really after a secret decoding device, but problems are on the way. "Gripping, from beginning to end."
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English, German
- Package Dimensions : 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches; 7.36 ounces
- Director : Jonathan Mostow
- Run time : 1 hour and 56 minutes
- Release date : May 15, 2001
- Date First Available : October 1, 2006
- Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, David Keith
- Studio : Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Producers : Alan Collis, Dino De Laurentiis, Hal Lieberman, Lucio Trentini
- ASIN : B00005B6N7
- Writers : David Ayer, Jonathan Mostow, Sam Montgomery
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- How skillfully the American crew, few in number, manages so quickly to run that crippled, alien German submarine so well after they capture it;
- How doggedly (miraculously?) that poor sub survives the depth charging it endured crippling it before the Americans arrive, and the even more murderous ones by the German destroyer afterward;
- How could such a battered boat survive a dive well beyond the maximum depth on its depth gauge? (Best line in the film is from the Chief Petty Officer played by Keitel: "Those Krauts sure know how to build a boat.")
- Watertight doors seem never to be closed. That's the first thing you do when you go to battle stations on a warship.
Nonetheless, a good, fairly gripping effort. The sounds of the depth chargings are awesome on a good subwoofer system such as mine. I have never been depth charged for real, though have read numerous descriptions in submarine literature and seen movies such as Das Boot. Take away the occasionally intrusive music and this sound track must be close to what I imagine was the real thing. Depth charging has been described as a huge awesome hammer. That effect comes through - not only huge loud deafening metallic hammer blows but the deep boom of the explosions and the click of the trigger just before the charges go off. Hats off to the people on all sides who endured that for real.
One last note: it would have been better, and more diplomatic, for the note acknowledging that the British were first in capturing an enigma machine to have come at the beginning of the film rather than the end. Also, a notation at the beginning that the film was a fictional dramatization of actual events would have been appropriate and more respectful to British and Americans alike.