Bajo diez banderas

Título original: Sotto dieci bandiere

1960
Not Rated
1h 28min

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Van Heflin and Charles Laughton in Bajo diez banderas (1960)

Un asaltante alemán, usando varios disfraces, obliga a un barco británico a rendirse. En una historia contada desde el punto de vista alemán.Un asaltante alemán, usando varios disfraces, obliga a un barco británico a rendirse. En una historia contada desde el punto de vista alemán.Un asaltante alemán, usando varios disfraces, obliga a un barco británico a rendirse. En una historia contada desde el punto de vista alemán.

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- 1 nominación en total

Curiosidades
James Mason and Laurence Olivier were the two front runners for the role eventually played by Charles Laughton.

Pifias
Although this movie is supposed to be based on fact, the scene in which the spy breaks into the Germany Navy code room is fiction. In fact, the British code breakers at Bletchley Park had already broken the German codes and knew how to pinpoint Atlantis. However, to keep the Germans from knowing this, various cover stories were invented during the war. This error is not the fault of the film makers as this information wasn't revealed to the general public until 1974, 14 years after this movie was made.

Créditos adicionales
Opening credits prologue: HOWEVER INCREDIBLE THEY MAY SEEM THE EVENTS NARRATED IN THIS PICTURE ACTUALLY OCCURRED

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7/10

Waging A Civilized War

Under Ten Flags is a film about the destruction of the German surface raider Atlantis during the years of World War II before American entry. Based on a true story the captain is played by Van Heflin who is a master at camouflaging his ship as an ordinary merchant vessel and then springing a big surprise on Allied commerce. His ship carries at least ten flags for each occasion including the swastika rolled down when the moment is right to strike.

Heflin seems to take his cues from the famous sea raider of World War I, Count Felix Von Luckner who operated exactly that way in the previous conflict. That's not easy to do the same during this war with Germany's new masters, still Heflin has a code he lives by. He's also got at least one confirmed Nazi in his crew, John Ericson a young Aryan true believer. He can't believe that Heflin actually treats the prisoners he takes like human beings including a Jewish husband and wife who gives birth to a baby daughter on the ship. Ericson vows to report such subversive behavior to the proper authorities in Berlin.

This film is very similar to Sink The Bismarck and the guy trying to put Heflin and his raider out of business is Admiral Charles Laughton in London. It's all a matter of cracking the German code and the action also is in occupied Paris where they've got the code in the German embassy.

Laughton wants to take Heflin down but he's absolutely enthralled by Heflin's skill and daring. Beyond that Laughton's part as the British admiral is rather ill defined. Usually I enjoy watching Laughton in anything and I like him here as well, but he's not given all that much to work with and the film clearly belongs to Heflin.

Who delivers a very good performance as a civilized man trying to stay civilized in barbaric times and having barbaric people run his country. Under Ten Flags for some reason seems to have disappeared and I count myself lucky to have gotten a copy of the film to review it. I think fans of war films will consider themselves lucky to see Under Ten Flags.