Run Silent Run Deep
With Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden.
US, 1958, 35mm, black & white, 93 min.
Lancaster cast himself as a frustrated, steely-edged naval officer in Robert Wise's gripping WWII combat film and study of tenacious masculinity set almost entirely upon a US submarine on a perilous mission deep in enemy waters. Sharing top-billing is Clark Gable as a veteran submarine captain driven by an Ahab-obsession to seek revenge on the same Japanese freighter that destroyed his submarine and almost scuttled his career, back at sea for a last stand whose dangerous gambit only second-in-command Lancaster fully understands. While ultimately an affirmation of military hierarchy and American naval puissance Run Silent Run Deep soberly resists an easy victory narrative by keeping palpable the sense that the submarine's mission is always just about to go terribly wrong.
Part of film series
Screenings from this program
Sweet Smell of Success
Brute Force
The Rose Tattoo
The Crimson Pirate
Ulzana's Raid
Conversation Piece
From Here to Eternity
Twilight’s Last Gleaming
I Walk Alone
The Leopard
The Killers
Atlantic City
Criss Cross
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
The Train
Vera Cruz
The Swimmer
Run Silent Run Deep
A Child Is Waiting
Judgment at Nuremberg
