Die letzte Fahrt der Bismarck (1960)

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Kenneth More

Captain Jonathan Shepard

Dana Wynter

Second Officer Anne Davis

Carl Möhner

Kapitän Ernst Lindemann
(as Carl Mohner)

Laurence Naismith

First Sea Lord - Sir Dudley Pound - Admiral of the Fleet

Geoffrey Keen

Assistant Chief of Naval Staff

Karel Stepanek

Admiral Günther Lutjens

Michael Hordern

Admiral Jack Tovey - Commander in Chief - HMS King George V

Maurice Denham

Commander Richards

Michael Goodliffe

Captain Banister

Esmond Knight

Captain John Leach - HMS Prince of Wales

Jack Watling

Signals Officer

Jack Gwillim

Commodore Wilfrid Patterson - HMS King George V
(as Jack Gwillam)

Mark Dignam

Captain Loben Mound - HMS Ark Royal

Ernest Clark

Captain Robert Ellis - HMS Suffolk

John Horsley

Captain Charles Larcom - HMS Sheffield

Peter Burton

Captain - HMS Solent - First Destroyer

Sydney Tafler

Henry - First Workman

John Stuart

Captain Ralph Kerr - HMS Hood

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The Bismarck's crew was made up of just over two thousand men. Following her sinking, only 114 survivors were rescued from the sea, 110 of them by HMS Dorsetshire and the Tribal-class destroyer HMS Maori. The rescue of survivors was called off by the captain of HMS Dorsetshire amid reports that a U-Boat may be in the area.

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The characterization of Admiral Gunther Lütjens in this movie is wildly inaccurate. He is shown as a zealot, a fanatic, denying reality until the end. In fact, Lütjens was a thoughtful, even morose figure - some survivors claimed that his tendency for fatalism damaged their morale. Absurdly, on screen the Admiral tells his men to "remember you are Nazis!" Lütjens was not a Nazi (very much the opposite, to the extent that he famously refused to perform the Nazi salute for Hitler before the Bismarck set sail), nor were the vast majority of his officers and crew.

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[to his assistant Anne Davis, after the battle]
Captain Jonathan Shepard: Take a message: "Request pleasure of the company of Second Officer Anne Davis at dinner."

Crazy Credits
Opening credits prologue: LONDON MAY 1941

Verbindungen
Edited from Duell im Atlantik (1957)

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6/10

Admiral Gunther Lutjens Maligned

I agree with the other reviewers who complained that Adm. Gunther Lutjens was portrayed as being a pro-Nazi when in actuality, he wasn't. In fact, Lutjens had protested against the dismissal of Jewish officers from the Navy and when Hitler came to visit the Bismarck 2 weeks before her departure, he gave Hitler the navy salute and not the Nazi salute.

Part of the problem with this movie is where 20th Century Fox obtained their material from. They used the material in C.S. Forrester's book "The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck". In that book Forrester had portrayed Lutjens as being pro-Nazi which had 20th Century Fox researched before making the movie, would have uncovered Forrester's mistake (intentional or not). A better book was Ludovic Kennedy's "Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Battleship Bismarck," but I don't believe his book had come out at the time the movie was made. 20th Century Fox should have waited until it did than to base a true event on a possibly biased book.