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Title: Pretty Bad
Review: This is a great subject but a pretty awful movie. Ham-handed acting, terrible comedic interjections (who needs comedy in a movie like this?), and silly bridge sets where the actors are mostly oblivious to near-hits in the sea just behind them. But worst of all, there was no attempt to disguise the USS Salem heavy cruiser, which stood in for the Graf Spee. The two ships actually bore some resemblace, but c'mon guys, couldn't you at least paint out the Salem's prominent 139 bow number for the movie, rather than lamely suggesting that it was a "disgise"? A disguise for a US ship that wasn't commissioned until 1949?! The Graf Spee certainly did not wear a large bow number as she prowled the Atlantic. Overall rating: pretty much a waste of time unless you don't konw the story; they should have done a better job when they had the ships around.
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