Assault on a Queen

1966
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1h 46m

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A motley crew of treasure hunters plan to rob the cruise-liner RMS Queen Mary, using a recovered WW2 German submarine.A motley crew of treasure hunters plan to rob the cruise-liner RMS Queen Mary, using a recovered WW2 German submarine.A motley crew of treasure hunters plan to rob the cruise-liner RMS Queen Mary, using a recovered WW2 German submarine.

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5.6/10

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Trivia
Duke Ellington, the film's composer, had to leave scoring the film to go on tour. Van Cleave and Frank Comstock were brought in not only to orchestrate the film but to finish the score and arrange the material. In the end, only five of Ellington's cues survived, with the rest being from the arrangers. Sadly, the master tapes to the score have been lost to time and the full extent of what Elliongton recorded that was not in the film will never be heard. In June 2016 Dragon's Domain Records released the score as heard in the film, but from monaural music stems, since the aforementioned master tapes no longer exist.

Goofs
When the submarine is beneath the Queen Mary and the liner starts her engines and propellers, a technician's hand is clearly visible shaking the stern of the U-Boat model back and forth in the prop wake. This may not be apparent on the pan/scan version, but is obvious on the new Blu-Ray hi-def transfer.

Quotes
Mark Brittain: She's so deep in my gut, we breathe together.

Connections
Referenced in You're a Big Boy Now (1966)

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The most unlikely, unrealistic heist film ever

This is an underrated heist film from the sixties, which was the decade for the genre. This one is totally unlikely, crazy, but not a comedy, not like ITALIAN JOB, BIGGEST BUNDLE OF THEM ALL, SEVEN GOLDEN MEN; it should be on the contrary be compared to GRAND SLAM. Yes, a totally unbelievable but not charmless, purely sixties movie which could be some kind of OCEAN' S ELEVEN rip-off, and not only because Richard Conte and Frank Sinatra's presence too. Be careful to the music score and overall atmosphere again. Forever lost sixties. Cool crime thriller but without being a comedy. I read the Jack Finney's book and prefered the book.