Run Silent, Run Deep

Friendly Fire

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Film, Comedy, History, War, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Run Silent, Run Deep: is it a submarine revenge flick or a tale of cohabitation and companionship? On today’s episode Adam, Ben, and John travel to new depths in discussing this classic WW2 film, and learn that of the many necessities to a life lived under the sea, perhaps the most important is trust in your commanding officer. (As an added bonus John recorded this episode inside a real 1940’s American Submarine!) This film is available via: Amazon, YouTube, and Vudu Click here to support our show! The next film, Flying Leathernecks, is available on: Amazon, iTunes, FilmStruck, Youtube, Google Play, Vudu, and your local library

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, just a heads up that on today's episode of Friendly Fire, John sounds a little bit different.
0:06.4	And that's because at the time of this recording, he was inside a real 1940s American submarine. Now please enjoy the show.
0:16.5	The notorious Japanese destroyer captain, Bungo Pete, sank PJ Richardson's previous
0:22.4	submarine and at the start of tonight's film we find the captain, played by Clark Gable, skippering a desk job and desperate for a new command.
0:31.0	After a year's wait, he gets his new sub, but the revenge won't come easy for this
0:35.6	World War II naval captain. His new crew are loyal to the executive officer played by
0:40.7	Bert Lancaster, and they're worried that Gables Vendetta is driving him to violate his orders and enter the dangerous straits where his last submarine met its untimely end.
0:52.0	Soon the sea boils with the captain's blood. met its untimely end.
0:52.6	Soon the sea boils with the captain's bloodlust
0:55.7	and the conflict between the two highest-ranking officers on the boat.
0:59.5	Director Robert Wises Black and White Nail Biter
1:02.1	was released in 1958 to critical praise, and is
1:05.8	recognized now as showing highly realistic depictions of submarine combat.
1:11.8	Today on friendly fire, run silent, run deep. You're listening to Friendly Fire, a movie podcast where we watch war movies.
1:34.0	That is such a good introduction.
1:36.0	I feel like I kind of started that, uh, that introduction the way the captain of the submarine
1:41.7	starts his movie in this in this episode.
1:44.7	Because we watched Run Silent Run Deep. A movie that I'm almost positive cast
1:50.4	Clark Gable purely for his line reading of the word dive.
1:54.6	Oh my God, he is so great at that word.
1:57.1	So what we have here is a vengeance movie, right?
2:03.3	This is a lot different from the first movie we saw.
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