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A World War II US Navy submarine officer, Commander P.J. Richardson (Clark Gable), is determined to get revenge on an ace Japanese destroyer captain, nicknamed "Bungo Pete", who has sunk three US submarines in the Bungo Straits, including his previous command. He persuades the Navy Board to give him a new submarine command with the provision that his executive officer be someone who has just returned from active sea patrol. He single-mindedly trains the crew of his new boat, the USS Nerka, to return to the Bungo Straits and sink Bungo Pete, in spite of the Navy's expressly forbidding him from approaching the Bongo Straits on this mission. Richardson's executive officer, Lieutenant Commander Jim Bledsoe (Burt Lancaster), is worried about the safety of his boat and his crew. He also resents Richardson and the Navy leadership for denying him command of the Nerka, which he believes should have been his.

Richardson begins to rigorously drill the crew on a rapid bow shot: firing at the bow of an approaching ship, considered an act of desperation due to a vessel's extremely narrow profile. He then bypasses one target, only to take on a Japanese destroyer with a bow shot. The crew is outraged as it discovers that Richardson is avoiding legitimate targets in order to enter the Bungo Straits undetected in direct violation of his mission orders.

Finally, they come upon a large convoy. Soon after blowing up a cargo ship and then engaging Bungo Pete, they are attacked by aircraft that had been alerted to their presence and were waiting in ambush. They are forced to dive and barely survive depth charges. Three of the crew are killed, and Richardson suffers an incapacitating concussion. The submarine also narrowly dodges what the crew mistakenly believes is one of their own torpedoes doubling back on them. By sending up blankets, equipment, and the bodies of the dead, they convince the Japanese that the submarine has been sunk. Bledsoe uses Richardson's injury to assume command and set course for Pearl Harbor.

While listening to Tokyo Rose proclaiming the sinking of their boat, several crewmen are mystified about how the Japanese are able to identify several of them by name. Bledsoe realizes that the Japanese have analyzed their floating trash, so he decides to turn that to his advantage. Since the Japanese believe the Nerka has been sunk, he returns to the Bungo Straits to fight the destroyer Akikaze, which the submarine sinks, only to be attacked again by a mystery torpedo. Richardson deduces that the Akikaze was not working alone to sink US submarines; a Japanese submarine was working in concert with it. He orders the boat into a dive just seconds before a Japanese torpedo races by. The Nerka forces its adversary to surface and destroys it. Richardson then collapses on the bridge, dies, and is buried at sea.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Silent,_Run_Deep_(1958_film)

Cast
Clark Gable as Commander P.J.Richardson クラーク・ゲーブル
Burt Lancaster as Lieutenant Commander Jim Bledsoe バート・ランカスター
Jack Warden as Mueller ジャック・ウォーデン
Brad Dexter as Ensign Gerald Cartwright ブラッド・デクスター
Don Rickles as Quartermaster 1st Class Ruby ドン・リックルズ

注文しておいたDVDがようやく届きました。今回の映画は1958年公開の「深く静かに潜航せよ」です。主演はクラーク・ゲーブルとバート・ランカスター。監督はロバート・ワイズ。あの「ウエストサイド物語」を監督した監督です。それとは全く違うタイプの映画です。ウエストサイド映画はミュージカルですがこっちは戦争映画。同じ人物が監督したとは思えないほどです。クラーク・ゲーブルの主演映画は「風とともに去りぬ」など1930年代の作品は見ていますが、第二次世界大戦後の主演映画は見たことありませんでした。これが初めてになります。ゲーブルは1960年に59歳で亡くなっているので、1958年公開のこの映画はかなり晩年の作品です。映画は同名の小説を原作としています。小説は本物の海軍大佐エドワード・ビーチによって書かれました。
この映画のストーリーを日本語で書けば、太平洋戦争中、潜水艦「ナーカ」の艦長になったゲーブル演じるリチャードソン中佐は復讐のため豊後水道で日本軍と対峙することになるといった感じですかね。
小説を原作としていますが、映画はいくつか小説と違った部分があります。映画では最後リチャードソンは亡くなりますが、小説では回復して作戦に参加しています。無くなるのは副官のブレッドソーの方です。
どこかで小説を見つけたら読んでみるのもいいかもしれません。映画と全く違った印象を与えることもあります。

それでは今日はこの辺で。

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