Excellent movie- I like the ending of the remake better, but this older film is great. I would think someone in England would restore anything Mills was in- all gems. TY!
My late father was serving on board The Valiant at the time, when he saw the film he was really angry they did .not abandon ship but were moved to the upper decks and the mines exploded beneath them! He also remarked that the Italian submariners were blonde.He refused the chance to be at the premiere of the film!
Pip and Joe really had something special. Reminds me of me and my (fatherless) 8yo step grandson. I'm his father, grandpa, and best friend all rolled into one. The next scene with Pip, Joe, and Biddie is also very heartwarming.
I think you’ll find the subs were not English - they were Italian!! Okay joke over -actually my dad was in this movie ,playing the Chief Petty Officer (I think) in the anchor Cableroom scene - I remember him when I was a child aged 8, returning from Italy having been there for threeweeks filming ( he brought me a very fancy geometry drawing set as a present ) the film was believed lost for some time but it was shown some years ago at the NFT (English version -I was at the screening )
I suggest replacing the cam chain before 50k miles. These chains do stretch which retards the cams. Tensioner wont help with that. I installed a DID quiet chain which was half a link shorter than the worn out factory original. The DID is heavier duty and fits right in. I then installed a double dot tensioner and im very happy with the quiet result.
Cool movie! This reminds me of one level in the really hard (buggy but still good) game "Hidden & Dangerous 2 + Sabre Squadron", now known as combined game under the name "Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire", available on GOG. In one level you have to ride those mini subs and attach some mines, steal an Enigma machine and quit w/o setting off the alarm of the 2nd ship. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6mijSWoiviY.html
A great movie, though I prefer the alternate ending in Sailor of the King with Michael Rennie, where AB Seaman Brown and the Captain are awaiting decorations by the King. With Jeffrey Hunter as Signalman Andrew 'Canada' Brown, Michael Rennie as Lieutenant / Captain Richard Saville, Peter van Eyck as Kapitän Ludwig von Falk, Wendy Hiller as Lucinda Bentley, Bernard Lee as Petty Officer Wheatley, Victor Maddern as Signalman Willy Earnshaw, and John Horsley as Commander John WillisPatrick. This was also released as 'Single-Handed'. As found on Wikipedia: First ending The landing party searches the island for Brown as the camera pans to his apparently dead body. The action then cuts to London and an honours investiture, where Saville receives a knighthood for his actions. Brown was found dead by the landing party and was awarded a Victoria Cross posthumously, presented to his mother. She is revealed to be the former Lucinda Bentley, who had moved to Canada after her tryst with Saville. She and Saville meet before she goes to accept her son's medal. [I have yet to see the last part where Savill and Lucinda Bentley meet]. Second ending The action cuts straight from the German survivor to an honours investiture in London, where Brown, who has, in this version, survived to receive his VC, meets Saville. Brown tells Saville that his English mother - to whom he owes his joining the navy - is living in Montreal and unable to make it to the ceremony (though whether or not she is Lucinda is not revealed). Saville informs Brown that he will be his signaller on their next posting on the North Atlantic convoy routes. They will both probably get a chance to see his mother in Canada. The pair then stand to attention as the national anthem plays.
Oh! I saw 'Sailor of the King' just a month ago and totally missed the thing about the young hero being the son of the cruiser flotilla captain. That version did not bring the two together very well.
I don't believe John Mills was ever in what one could call a bad movie. This one was excellent. However, I did like the ending better in the 1953 version. Thank you for posting. I have seen this one 3 or 4 times and the 1953 one several times. Thank you for posting.
And now England is run by immigrants wanting more illegal immigrants into England to demise English people and destroy England. Pissy anorak the fake immigrant pm and sadick kunt the evil London mayor are both immigrants who hate the English because of British rule in India many years ago.
Is there meant to be some sort of cap over the end of the CCT. When you remove do so gingerly as not to knock it off into the engine. Plus im no mechanic thats why im sourcing info but i dont think you need to find tdc.
Eventually id expect a time when the chain would have stretched a little too far and you would need tensioner and chain, but a great way to buy some time!
An excellent film with a very young John Mills. Sailor of the crown is another one worth watching from the 1950's with a similar story when a British Sailor escapes from the sickbay of a German ship called the 'Blucher' or something like that. The sailor in that also climbed a cliff with a rifle and fired on the German sailors carrying out repairs on the ship which had anchored in a cove. The ending was different to this film though as the sailor survived.
Amazing how dubbing damages a film! Clearly, the lips are not in sync with Italian, and the dubbing voices lack the distinctive diction of John Mills, Robert Shaw and the rest. The subtitled translation is very poor, too... hurts to see an English film with dodgy subtlitles in English
Do you think anyone can install it or you recommend to go to a mechanic? What is the most important thing I should know before I install it myself ? After install,do I have to use the screwdriver to adjust it to me sure dosent make any sound or is adjusting himself? Thanks !
Hi - It's one of the easiest jobs you can do. You don't really even need to set the cylinders to Top Dead Center either (I was just curious). Once installed it self-adjusts - assuming you buy the correct self-adjusting CCT. (Jaws motorcycles does one: Honda Blackbird CBR1100XX Cam Chain Tensioner Honda OEM CCT 06140MAT325). I reckon the hardest part is removing the the old CCT - the gasket was stuck (Use a few gentle knocks with a bit of wood or soft hammer to dislodge to old CCT - easy). 2nd hard part is cleaning the old gasket off the engine, shove a cloth in the hole so you don't get gasket bits in the engine ;-) Course the boring bit is having to take the side fairing off - ugh.
I LOVE JOHN MILLS AND WHAT AN AMAZING LIST OF ADDED MOVIES SUPERB !!!! ... Noel Cowards In Which We Serve ... outstanding ! ... Do you please have or are able to get the . . . The Colditz Story With John Mills Please THANK YOU ...
Lol proper old vaudeville actors lol she’s olde enough to be his mother. And that voice. She’s sings those WARBLING lines from Those greats. ( ARRGGH I cannot Rember the Writer and composer of all the greats ) help. Famous lines. Like TWO LITTLE MAIDS. The JAPANESE popular operas oooh god it. It’s killing mr on the tip of my tongue. . Oh Sullivan and Neil . Nope not that. But you all Know
Don’t just change the tensioner, change the cam chain too. Changing the tensioner will only be a quick fix. It will come back after a while as the cam chain is worn.
