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Genres:
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Adventure /
Drama /
History /
War /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Ralph Thomas
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Actors:
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O.E. Hasse,
James Kenney,
William Russell,
John Mills,
John Gregson,
Donald Sinden,
James Robertson Justice,
Michael Medwin,
Lee Patterson,
Theodore Bikel
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)80.5
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Plot Summary:
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The greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. Being anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is unsolvable to attack it with any unlooked-for of success. But the navy trains a special commando to attack it, using little submarines to weed underwater explosives under it.
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Above Us the Waves
A stirring tale of British wartime pluck, In excess of The Waves concerns the efforts of a small collect within the Royal Navy to utilise unproven submersible devices to strike a blow at the German navy. Specifically, their objective is to sink the Tirpitz, a battleship so difficult and such a threat to shipping that the Royal Armada is committing undue amounts of resources to keeping it in substantiation. "We are an holm people, we cannot survive without communications across the sea. Hitler knows this single too well," we're told closed some "captured German newsreel" at the start. A collaborate is assembled lower than drunk John Mills' Commander Fraser after attempts to disprove the Tirpitz by breath secure failed, meet to its secure position 60 miles inlan...
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