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| Year: | 2000 |
| Rating: | 6.4(32485) |
| Listed in: | Action, Drama, War |
| Directed by: | Jonathan Mostow |
| Actors: | Matthew McConaughey Bill Paxton Harvey Keitel Jon Bon Jovi David Keith Thomas Kretschmann |
| "You won't come up for air until it's over!" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Mostow | |
| Actors | |
| Matthew McConaughey | as Lt. Andrew Tyler |
| Bill Paxton | as Lt. Cmdr. Mike Dahlgren |
| Harvey Keitel | as CPO Henry Klough |
| Jon Bon Jovi | as Lt. Pete Emmett |
| David Keith | as Maj. Matthew Coonan |
| Thomas Kretschmann | as Capt.-Lt. Gunther Wassner |
| Jake Weber | as Lt. Hirsch |
| Jack Noseworthy | as Seaman Bill Wentz |
| Tom Guiry | as Seaman Ted 'Trigger' Fitzgerald |
| Will Estes | as Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker |
| Terrence 'T.C.' Carson | as Steward Eddie Carson |
| Erik Palladino | as Seaman Anthony Mazzola |
| Dave Power | as Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens |
| Derk Cheetwood | as Seaman Herb Griggs |
| Matthew Settle | as Ens. Keith Larson |
| Burnell Tucker | as Adm. Duke |
| Rob Allyn | as Ensign |
| Carsten Voigt | as German Chief Hans |
| Gunter Würger | as Lt. Kohn |
| Oliver Stokowski | as German E-Chief |
| Arnd Klawitter | as German Hydrophone Operator |
| Kai Maurer | as German Planesman |
| Robert Lahoda | as German Engineer |
| Peter Stark | as German Lookout |
| Erich Redman | as German Bosun |
| William John Evans | as Marine Sergeant |
| Robin Askwith | as British Seaman |
| Jasper Wood | as Petty Officer |
| Martin Glade | as Gunner Officer |
| Oliver Osthus | as Depth Charge Officer |
| John William Falconer | as Other Sergeant |
| Cory Glen Mathews | as Other Sergeant |
| Norman Campbell Rees | as Military Police Sergeant |
| Actresses | |
| Rebecca Tilney | as Mrs. Dahlgren |
| Carolyna De Laurentiis | as Prudence Dahlgren |
| Dina De Laurentiis | as Louise Dahlgren |
| Valentina Ardeatini | as Mrs. Peggy Larson |
| Jennifer Barrett Malinowski | as Joanie - Pete Emmett's Fiancee |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, German |
| Filming dates: | 25 January 1999 - 30 May 1999 |
| Budget: | USD 62,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 79,068,995 USD (16 July 2000) UK - 765,313 GBP (4 June 2000) Spain - 310,144,356 ESP (25 June 2001) |
| Plot: | In the battle front of espionage and code cracking of World War II, there remains but one task on the Allied agenda: the capture of a German "Enigma" machine which will allow the Allied naval forces to locate and track submerged German U-Boat submarines. When one such German vessel breaks down after a battle with British forces, a secret mission is dispatched to take over the U-Boat by commando American forces and retrieve an Enigma machine intact. The raid goes well, at first, yet following the destruction of the American mothership and the arrival of reenforcement German ships, the Americans trapped on the U-Boat must use their training and wits to pilot U-571 in order to save their lives. |
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"Lover, Come Back to Me" Written by Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II (performed at the wedding reception while Dahlgreen is talking to Tyler) "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" from "Das Land des Lächelns" Written by Franz Lehár, Fritz Löhner-Beda, Ludwig Herzer Performed by Benny Goodman "My Heart Stood Still" Written by Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart |
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Continuity: During the final battle between the captured Nazi U-Boat and the pursuing destroyer, the weather rapidly changes between overcast and sunny. Continuity: When Lt. Tyler is sitting on the porch smoking a cigar the first shot shows it half finished, then the next wide shot shows the cigar full, then the next shot is another close up with the cigar half finished again. SYNC: When Lt. Tyler and Mazzola are outside on the submarine and a German plane is flying over; when Mazzola yells, his mouth is saying something totally different than what is coming through on the audio. DATE: In one scene several American sailors are wearing German uniforms with the swastika insignia on opposite sides of their shirts. In another scene, American sailors in dress uniforms are wearing ribbon bars for awards that did not exist in 1942. Continuity: When Hirsch is briefing the crew of the S33 he is pointing things out on a chart. When you first see the chart table the only thing on it is a brown folder. In the close up you see the folder and a photograph of the Enigma machine. In the next shot you see the complete table again but only the folder is on it again. Hirsch then pulls the photos out of the folder. Continuity: After they shoot debris from the submarine there is a shot from underneath the submarine. The splashes from the depth charges and illumination reveal that the sub is at or very near the surface, not at 150 metres. DATE: During the party scene in the beginning of the movie a sailor is clearly shown drinking a modern twist off bottle of Budweiser beer. FAIR: A black character has a prominent place in the movie, from the crew of the U.S. sub. While sub crews were not fully integrated at the time, African-Americans did serve, as shown here, as messmen and stewards. Fact errors: Several scenes show depth charges dropping and exploding within a few feet of the submerged U-571. Detonations anywhere near this close would cause catastrophic hull damage and the boat would be sunk. FAIR: While testing the German of the soldier, the officer refers to the German town of "Koblenz" at the river Rhine. The name of that town is written "Koblentz" in the English subtitles, but this is a common alternate spelling and helps emphasize the pronunciation issues. DATE: At the entrance to the Naval yard, there is a stop sign in the foreground. Stop signs of that era were yellow with black lettering and not red with white lettering. DATE: The chief petty officer is wearing anchor insignia on the collar of his khaki shirt, but these were not introduced until 1959. Fact errors: The German recon aircraft appears to be a Messerschmidt 109. However, the head on view is that of another aircraft (wrong wings). The big question is: What is a German fighter doing in the middle of the Atlantic? There were no German aircraft carriers. Recon aircraft were float planes, launched from catapults. Revealing mistakes: When the raiding party get into U-571's galley the cook falls back against the (steel) hull when shot and it moves under his weight. Continuity: At the start of the film, just after the fire starts in the German sub's diesel room, an officer shouts, "She's dropped to 120 meters, Captain." Close examination of the depth gauge to his right shows the sub to be rapidly surfacing. CHAR: When S-33 first dives Chief Klough gives three dive alarms saying "Dive! Dive! Dive!". Actual diving procedure requires two alarms sounded accompanied by "Dive! Dive! Continuity: When the Captain is summoned to the outside of the U-571 by the crew (U.S.), he confronts a German destroyer dead ahead, blocking their path. We clearly see the turret guns aiming directly at the U-571 at this point (only for a moment, as the Captain emerges from the sub). Yet moments later, when the Captain orders his crew to fire on the destroyer's radio, the destroyer responds by turning its turret guns towards the U-571, because they are now shown pointing in another direction. DATE: In the scene before boarding the submarine, a box of explosives is shown but the sign on the box is an international United Nations symbol for explosives (exploding device on orange background). The UN was not created until after WW2 Revealing mistakes: When the German recon aircraft appears and the camera moves into the aircraft, the gauges are pointing at zero. Continuity: When "Rabbit" Parker comes back from blowing garbage and Mazzola's body, Tyler is wearing a coat. Three seconds later Tyler has no coat. Revealing mistakes: When the U-571 sends its distress message, the toothed wheels of the Enigma machine are visible while three characters of text are typed. The right-hand wheel should advance with every character, but it clearly does not; in a close-up we see it advance correctly once, then on the next character it just starts to move and falls back. Presumably the filmmakers used a real wartime Enigma machine that, after 55 years, was not in good working order. GEOG: The S-33 starts from Kittery, Maine ("PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD" on building behind welders), but in Lt. Hirsch's briefing, the map clearly shows the U-571's triangulated position at 52°N, 29°W. This is over 2,000 miles from Portsmouth, NH, but only about 1,200 miles from Lorient, France. The resupply sub left Lorient before the S-33 left Portsmouth (known from the times of day and also because Hirsch knows about it), and the U-571 is drifting east, too, so how could the S-33 possibly get there first? CHAR: Hirsch says that the sub was attacked and presumably disabled "last night at 0300 hours". This is impossible for several reasons; for one thing, the S-33 could not have been sent out when it was. He must mean the previous night. DATE: Hirsch mentions that the location is "near the CHOP line", which is boldly marked on the map at 30°W. The CHOP line, indicating where a convoy's protection CHanged OPerational control from American or Canadian to British responsibility, was first established on July 1, 1942, but the letter that, in his first scene, Tyler has just received is dated May 14, 1942. Also, the CHOP line was initially at 26°W and then 47°W, never 30°. Revealing mistakes: Just before the torpedo is launched, there is a through-the-periscope shot of the destroyer from an impossibly elevated (and much closer than the submarine) position. Fact errors: The crew is shown taking in lines when the boat is preparing to get underway. Lines were not stored aboard the submarines in the line lockers provided because under depth charging, the lockers could open and the lines could get loose and foul the screws or dive planes. Submarines cast off the mooring lines to the tender. Continuity: When the German sub comes across the lifeboat full of survivors, the gunner is shown with a long strand of cartridges that loops down to about his knees. When he begins firing, the strand pulled from his outstretched hand is no more than two feet long, yet the shots ring out for some 15 seconds. DATE: When the American submarine is having plates welded to it to make it look like the Nazi sub, the welder kneeling down is wearing a pair of Adidas trainers. Continuity: After the U-571 deck gun fires at the destroyer, wrecking the radio room and mast, the crew hurry back to the conning towers as the U-Boat dives. In doing so, they fail to replace the watertight cover on the barrel of the gun (shown in close-up as the crew scramble for the tower), yet moments later, as the U-Boat passes under the destroyer after submerging, the cover can clearly be seen on the end of the barrel. Fact errors: The area around the coast of the UK was patrolled by aircraft of RAF Coastal Command and as the U-Boat is heading for the UK (on the grounds that it is too far to return to the US with such a damaged boat), the PBY Catalina that is seen in the last shot, should be wearing RAF roundels not US-Navy (pre-war/neutral) markings. DATE: In reality, the submarine U-571 was never actually captured. The submarines U-559 and U-110 were the ones captured with the codebooks but by the British Navy in August 1941, four months before the United States entered the war. Fact errors: German resupply submarines, the Type XIV, were not equipped with torpedoes, but anti-aircraft guns. Thus, the S33 would have succeeded in its mission and left without the Germans being able to retaliate, though able to inform command that the Enigma was compromised. CHAR: In the scene in which the men are in bunks and Mazzola is talking about a girl he met, he says when he's not "getting anywhere" with her, he uses his secret weapon: the story of the S-26. He then says, "She was running a test dive down off Norfolk. Shaft seal failed. She sunk to 400 feet." This is incorrect. The S-26 was accidentally struck by PC-460 (USS Sturdy) and sank during night patrol maneuvers in the Gulf of Panama in January of 1942. Fact errors: When the U-boat torpedo hits the Destroyer, the boat comes to a complete stop immediately after exploding. A destroyer would need hundreds of feet to come to a complete stop. Hit by torpedo or not. Continuity: When Ensign Larson is shot, Lt. Tyler is asking him if he's okay, and the Christmas Tree (situation board) is visible in the background with one light off. A moment later all the lights are on. Fact errors: When U571 is under depth charge attack from the German destroyer, on the soundtrack you can hear sonar pings that would be attributable to ASDIC. The Germans did not have ASDIC. Fact errors: Both the S-33 and U-571 come under torpedo fire from the German resupply submarine. These U-boats did not have torpedo tubes and would only carry torpedoes as ammunition for the standard U-boats. Continuity: After the team takes the enemy U-Boat and they have to use it to escape the German resupply U-boat, Lt. Tyler is rapidly turning two dive valves in one direction. In the next scene, he is rapidly turning them in the opposite direction. DATE: While boarding the U-Boat, Lt. Tyler slowly walks the length of the boat with his hand gun extended using the Weaver Stance. The Weaver Stance, a two handed grip, was developed during the late 1950s by Deputy Sheriff Jack Weaver in California. Before that time, especially during the war, the single handed side grip was taught and used. Fact errors: When Lt Tyler is reading the document in his car, the date at the top of it is "May 14, 1942". Military dates on documents are always in a day - month - year format, so the date on the document should have been "14 May 1942". DATE: When the shipyard is working on the 33 boat, one of the shipyard workers is clearly seen using a present day yellow DeWalt grinder. SYNC: In the scene with the life boat, the machine gun used is clearly a MG-42 or some variant, however, when the machine gun is fired the sound we hear is more similar to a .50 caliber Browning, a gun used by the US army, not a Nazi u-boat. Continuity: The original Captian (Bill Paxton) is shown ducking his head under the water and sinking, giving in to his death. However, when the crew comes back up to look for survivors, they notice the Captain's dead body floating on top of the water. He did not have a life vest on either. Continuity: The sheets seen in the American submarine are on backwards. (This was noted in the commentary.) Continuity: While Lt. Tyler is looking through the binoculars at the German destroyer the guy behind him is also looking through binoculars. Then there is a medium shot that shows him not looking through the binoculars. Then there is a close up again of both of them looking through binoculars. Revealing mistakes: There is a scene where the guy is in the sonar room. Then there is a shot that shows the length of the corridor. If you look down at the end of the corridor there is a guy that walks into the corridor from the side and stops and looks down the corridor toward the camera. Continuity: Tyler's body position changes between when he punches Mazzola and when he says "What are you doing? This is not a God damn democracy." He is facing a different way and is grabbing Mazzola with his left arm. Continuity: When Mazzola is wrestling with the German captain his hands alternately go from grasping the captain's lapels to his neck between overhead and side shots. Continuity: After the German captain beats up Tank he shuts down the diesel engine, but when Mazzola goes back to check on why the engine stopped, it is running again. FAIR: As shown in the movie, the code book which cracked Enigma during the Battle of the Atlantic was the long weather code book. This was only captured once - by the British. Subsequent attempts by the US failed as the book would dissolve on contact with water. The film does not purport to be telling a true story; a notice at the end acknowledges the real-life ships whose crews captured Enigmas. Continuity: The Nazi emblem placed on the S-33 is conspicuously missing in later scenes. Fact errors: The CPO said that he had been depth-charged in WWl in a US sub by a German destroyer near Murmansk. This would have never happened. First, US subs did not operate there or at all in Europe then. The closest allied subs would have been British ones hunting German ships in the Baltic. Why would a US sub in WW l or ll be any where near Murmansk , which wasn't even a port then, it was Archangel? Any ships heading that way would be allied vessels with supplies for the Russians, and subs had only one use, to sink enemy merchant vessels. And what would a German destroyer be doing there, hunting subs that couldn't attack any German ships. The German fleet almost never left the Baltic or North Sea and when they did, it would be a major task force. A lone destroyer operating 1000s of miles from port in frigid enemy waters to hunt subs that wouldn't be there in the first place makes no sense. Fact errors: The sonar ping sound effect is wrong. Throughout the movie you hear ping-and-return (echo) 2-tone sound effect, the return echo coming closer and closer as the ship passes overhead. This is the sound the sonar man on the ship (not the submarine) would hear: his sonar's ping and the echo off the sub. In the sub, you would hear the ship's ping and that's all. If you hear ping-and-return in a sub, then you are listening to the sound of the submarine's own active sonar. GEOG: A comment was made that Chief Klough was to have said he was depth charged off "Murmansk" (and even the closed-captioning said that) but the proper reference is "Merignac" a French city then at the end of an estuary but now close to Bordeaux, France. Fact errors: As with the appearance of a single-engined German aircraft in the middle of the Atlantic, the German destroyer is encountered in a position far beyond the operational range of this type of ship. Fact errors: The "destroyer" is identified as the Z-49. The Z-49 was planned but never built by the German Navy. Had it been built, it would not have been completed until very late in the war, long after the time of the movie. Further, the ship shown in no way resembles a 1936C type of German destroyer. Fact errors: When under attack by the German destroyer, the U-571 releases oil and discharges debris in an effort to fake its destruction *before* it is depth charged. |
Quotes
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Marine Maj. Coonan: How deep does this thing go? Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: Oh, she'll go all the way to the bottom if we don't stop her. Chief Klough: You're the skipper now. And the skipper always knows what to do whether he does or not. Eddie: It's the first time you ever seen a black man ain't it... get used to it. [During a depth charge attack] Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Mister Hirsch, step away from that bulkhead. The shockwave from one of these explosions could snap your spine. Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: If this mission goes south I will blow that boat right out of the water. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: What the hell are you doing, huh? This is NOT a God damn democracy! Ens. Keith Larson, Chief Torpedoman: They wouldn't give me five minutes to consumate my marriage. Five minutes! Chief Klough: Well, Mister Tyler, if you ever need a chief, I'll go to sea with you anytime. Chief Klough: What the hell are those yardbirds doing to my boat? Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: His body is gonna to save our lives. Mrs. Dahlgren: Where's your date, Andy? It's not like you to arrive stagged like this. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: I'm afraid I couldn't get one on such short notice ma'am. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: I didn't get my boat. Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: I know. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: And with all due respect, sir, there's only one way that could've happened and that's if you withheld your recomendation. Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: That's right. I just don't think your ready. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: What do you mean I'm not ready? Sir, I have worked my tail off on the S-33. I'm qualified in every area and then some. What executive officer has higher marks then I do, Captain? Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: Andy! Your just not ready to take on a command of your own. Chief Klough: Those Krauts sure know how to build a boat. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Who's the boarding party? Marine Maj. Coonan: Well, since you're the XO, you sir. Mr. Emmett, Mr. Larson, Mr. Hirsh and nine of your ships company. Captain, of course, will remain onboard the S-33. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Mister, our boys are submarine sailors, not combat marines. Marine Maj. Coonan: Boys onboard that U-boat are sailors, too. Your men will be ready, Lieutenant. I'll train them myself. Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: Relax gentlemen. She's old... but she'll hold. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: He torpedoed me, Chief. Nine months aboard the S-33 doing the best job I know how. Doing everything once, and then doing it again just to make sure I didn't miss anything the first time. Chief Klough: You'll get your chance sir. There's other commands in the navy. Seaman Bill Wentz, Radioman: Mister Tyler, please... don't tell the other guys I'm half German. They'll hate me. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Yeah, sure thing, Wentz. [as depth charges start falling] Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker, Torpedoman: Chief, you ever been depth-charged? Chief Klough: Once, off Murmansk, back in World War One. One charge came so close, it rattled four teeth out of the skipper's head. [a charge goes off overhead with a loud bang] Wasn't even close. Lt. Hirsch: Last night at 0300 hours a British destroyer reported depth charging and sinking a German U-boat. However, sometime thereafter, Allied direction finding station triangulated a coded enemy radio signal to this position here near the chop line. [indicates position on map] Lt. Hirsch: We believe the U-boat was disabled, not sunk, and is drifting eastward on a four-knot current. Now, French resistance reported a resupply submarine sailed from the Lorient U-boat pens yesterday afternoon with engine parts and mechanics. Now, we believe it's gonna rendezvous with the disabled U-boat. On board that U-boat is this. [picture of typewriter Enigma] Ens. Keith Larson, Chief Torpedoman: A typewriter? Lt. Hirsch: An Enigma code machine. It allows the German navy to communicate with it's submarines in secret, and our inability to decipher their messages is costing us this war. Mr. Coonan? Marine Maj. Coonan: All right. This is basically a Trojan Horse operation. The S-33 will rendezvous with the U-boat, posing as the German resupply sub. I will lead a boarding party dressed in Kriegsmarine uniforms to the enemy submarine. We will take it by force and secure the Enigma. Any German survivors will be transferred to the S-33 and the U-boat will be scuttled. Lt. Hirsch: The German resupply submarine will arrive at the rendezvous and will assume that the U-boat succumbed to its wounds and sank. The Germans must never suspect we have the Enigma. That is vital. Lt. Pete Emmett: So it's a race? Lt. Hirsch: Yes, effectively. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Who's the boarding party? Marine Maj. Coonan: Well, since you're the X.O., you sir. Mr. Emmett, Mr. Larson, Mr. Hirsch and nine of your ship's company. The captain, of course, will remain onboard the S-33. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Mr. Coonan, our boys are submarine sailors, not combat marines. Marine Maj. Coonan: The boys onboard that U-boat are sailors too. Your men'll be ready, Lieutenant. I'll train them myself. Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: You've come to the right boat. Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: You're a first rate X.O., Andy. A damn good submariner. I know the men like you. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: I'd give my life for any one of them, sir. Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: I know you would. I'm not questioning your bravery. The question is: what about their lives? You and Mr. Emmett are good friends. You went to the Academy together. Would you be willing to sacrifice his life? Or what about some of the younger enlisted men? I know a lot of those guys look up to you like a big brother. You willing to lay their lives on the line? [Tyler hesitates to speak] Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: You see? you hesitate. But as a captain, you can't. You have to act. If you don't, you put the entire crew at risk. Now that's the job. It's not a science. You have to be able to make hard decisions based on imperfect information. Asking men to carry out orders that may result in their deaths. And if you're wrong, you suffer the consequences. If you're not prepared to make those decisions, without pause, without reflection, then you've got no business being a submarine captain. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: [whispering] Tank, you alive back there? Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens: Yes, sir. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Good. Port ahead two-thirds. Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens: Port ahead two-thirds. Aye, sir. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: [pulls out paper] Tank... can you fix the stern tube? Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens: I don't know, Mr. Tyler. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: I don't want an "I don't know." Can you fix the torpedo tube? Yes... or no? Seaman Charles 'Tank' Clemens: Yes, sir. I think I can. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Thank you, Tank. Chief, make depth 1-6-0 meters. Chief Klough: That's more than five hundred feet. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Take us down, Chief. Chief Klough: Aye, sir. One-six-zero meters. Twenty degrees dive both planes. Eddie, Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker, Torpedoman: Twenty degrees dive, aye, sir. Eddie: Mr. Tyler, sir, uh, do you plan on going up against a destroyer with only one fish in the tube and busted motor? Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Yes, I am, Eddie. Lt. Hirsch: How wise is that, Lieutenant? Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Not very. But have a look. Chief. [while speaking, drawing and showing Chief and Hirsch plan on paper] Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: There is no way a two-knot submarine can get in firing position against a thirty-knot destroyer unless we go deep. At one hundred sixty meters, we can shoot out a bunch of junk from the forward tubes. It will resurface and create a debris field. Now the destroyer's going to go to the center of that debris field, shut off its engines to make it real nice and quiet and do an acoustic search to make sure we're dead. But we're not. See, we're here, on our way up to periscope depth. All right, principle of ascent velocity. We let our positive buoyancy pull us up and away from the destroyer. And when we surface we'll be showing it our ass at seven hundred yards. That is a pefect setup for a stern shot on a stationary target. Boom. It don't get much prettier than that. Chief Klough: All right, Mr. Tyler. Passing 1-3-0 meters. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Very well. Rabbit, I need you to load Mazzola's body into tube three and put an escape jacket on him to make sure he floats. Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker, Torpedoman: Wanna shoot him out like garbage? Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: [pause; slowly turns around] His body is gonna save our lives. Seaman Ronald 'Rabbit' Parker, Torpedoman: I'll say a few words for him. Lt. Hirsch: Mr. Tyler. Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Yeah. Lt. Hirsch: If you can't take out that destroyer, the danger is not that some of us may die. It's that some of us may live. These men have seen and heard things that must not be revealed to the enemy - our secrets, such as our radar capabilities, and our understanding of German encryption. If we fall into German hands alive, we will be tortured without mercy. Either you succeed in sinking that ship, or you see to it that none of us survive to be captured. |
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