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Run Silent Run Deep ()

Run Silent, Run Deep (original title)
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A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew.
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Cmdr. 'Rich' Richardson
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Lt. Jim Bledsoe
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Yeoman 1st Class Mueller
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Ens. Gerald Cartwright
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Quartermaster 1st Class Ruby
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Russo
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Chief Kohler
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Laura Richardson
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Larto
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Sonarman 1st Class Cullen
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jimmy Bates ...
Jessie (uncredited)
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Carl Beckman (uncredited)
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Co-ordinate Fixer at Bungo Straits (uncredited)
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Bragg (uncredited)
John Gibson ...
Capt. Blunt (uncredited)
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Japanese sailor (uncredited)
Alexander Lockwood ...
Minor Role (uncredited)
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Frank (uncredited)
Maurice McEndree ...
Radio Operator (uncredited)
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Crew member (uncredited)
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Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
Rodger Terry ...
Crewman (uncredited)
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Submarine Crewman (uncredited)
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Minor Role (uncredited)
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Corpsman Hendrix (uncredited)

Directed by

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Robert Wise

Written by

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John Gay ... (screenplay)
 
Edward L. Beach ... (based on novel by) (as Commander Edward L. Beach)

Produced by

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Harold Hecht ... producer
James Hill ... producer (uncredited)
William Schorr ... associate producer

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Franz Waxman

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Russell Harlan ... (photographed by)

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George Boemler ... editorial supervisor
Charles Ennis ... assistant editor (uncredited)

Art Direction by

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Edward Carrere

Set Decoration by

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Ross Dowd

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Frank Prehoda ... makeup artist
Robert J. Schiffer ... assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management

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Gilbert Kurland ... executive production manager

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Emmett Emerson ... assistant director
Irving J. Moore ... second assistant director (uncredited)

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Fred Lau ... sound recording
Harry Alphin ... sound recordist (uncredited)
Robert Martin ... boom operator (uncredited)

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Gerald Endler ... mechanical effects (uncredited)
Charles Schulthies ... special effects crew (uncredited)

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A. Arnold Gillespie ... special photographic effects (as Arnold Gillespie)
Howard Lydecker ... special photographic effects
Clifford Stine ... special photographic effects
Matthew Yuricich ... visual effects artist (uncredited)

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Bill Babcock ... stunts (uncredited)
Loren Janes ... stunts (uncredited)
Jay Dee Skidmore ... underwater stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Marcel Grand ... assistant camera (uncredited)
Al Lane ... camera operator (uncredited)
Cliff Shirpser ... assistant camera (uncredited)
Tom Tutwiler ... photographer: second unit (uncredited)

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Frank R. Budz ... wardrobe (uncredited)

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Leonid Raab ... orchestrator (uncredited)

Additional Crew

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Rob Roy McGregor ... technical advisor (as Rear Adm. Rob Roy McGregor U.S.N. Ret.)
Jim Lancaster ... production assistant (uncredited)
John Wooster ... production assistant (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger. Written by Kevin Ackley

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Taglines In all the seven seas never two like these! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Run Silent Run Deep (United States)
  • Run Silent Run Deep (India, English title)
  • Run Silent Run Deep (United Kingdom)
  • L'odyssée du sous-marin Nerka (France)
  • U 23 - Tödliche Tiefen (Germany)
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  • 93 min
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Trivia The real submarine captain that Clark Gable's character was based on, Captain Edward L. Beach, was only 23 years old at the time of the events depicted. Edward L. Beach Jr. wrote the book "Run Silent, Run Deep" (1955) as a work of fiction. While without doubt similarities exist between Commander Richardson (Gable) and Beach as a submarine captains, the same can be said of Richardson and all USN submarine captains of that era. But to say that the Richardson character is "based" on Beach is a stretch, especially when one considers that the movie is only very loosely based on the book. BTW, Beach also penned a great non-fiction book - an excellent read - "Salt and Steel" (1999), his reflections on being a submariner. See more »
Goofs A depth charge is seen rolling off the sub's deck and exploding directly under the keel. And later, three depth charges explode one after the other, all around the stern of the boat. A depth charge exploding that close under the middle of the keel would have broken the sub's back and sent it to the bottom, let alone three close in nearly simultaneous detonations. These images were meant to build tension, but are totally unrealistic. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Catalogue of Ships (2008). See more »
Soundtracks Anchors Aweigh See more »
Crazy Credits Not sure why Bungo Straits is cited as a crazy credit. The Bungo Suido (translates to Bungo Straits) is the waterway between Kyushu and Shikoku. See more »
Quotes [last lines]
Lt. Jim Bledsoe: [presiding at a funeral on his submarine] It's thirty-eight days now since we left Pearl Harbor. I know how some of us felt then; I think I know how some of us feel now. But let no one here, no one aboard this boat, ever say we didn't have a captain.
[as the body is buried at sea, he reads these remarks]
Lt. Jim Bledsoe: Unto almighty God we commend the soul of our shipmate departed. And we commit his body to the deep, in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection unto eternal life, when the sea shall give up her dead in the life of the world to come.
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