Submarine X-1

This article is about the 1968 movie. For the US Navy midget submarine, see X-1 Submarine.
Submarine X-1

Original film poster
Directed by William Graham
Produced by John C. Champion
Screenplay by Donald S. Sanford[1]
Guy Elmes
Story by John C. Champion
Edmund North
Starring James Caan
David Sumner
Norman Bowler
Brian Grellis
Music by Ron Goodwin
Cinematography Paul Beeson
Edited by John S. Smith
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release dates
1968
Running time
90 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Submarine X-1 is a 1968 DeLuxe Color British World War II war film loosely based on the Operation Source attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in 1943. In the film James Caan stars as Lt. Commander Richard Bolton, a Canadian, who must lead a group of midget submarines in an attack on a German battleship.

Plot

In 1943, a British naval officer from Canada, Commander Bolton (James Caan) and a few surviving crew members of his 50-man submarine Gauntlet swim ashore after unsuccessfully attacking German battleship Lindendorf. After a review, Captain Bolton is cleared of any wrongdoing and placed in charge of a small group of experimental X class submarines. Bolton is assigned by Vice-Admiral Redmayne (Rupert Davies) to quickly train crews to man the submarines and sink the Lindendorf while it is hidden away in a Norwegian fiord.

Commander Bolton is to train three 4-man crews along the northern coast of Scotland for a trio of midget submarines equipped with side cargoes of explosives He must overcome tensions with some of his former crew members, while keeping their activities hidden from outsiders and German aeroplanes. The crews successfully fend off an attack by German parachute commandos, who discover their base. Bolton is forced to make hasty preparations for his attack before their submarine base can be destroyed.

Two of the submarines are lost while attempting to cut through submarine nets at the entrance to the fiord. X-2, is sunk by a German E-boat's depth charges, and a second, the X-1, is scuttled. One submarine crew is captured and taken to the German battleship for interrogation. X-3, the surviving submarine penetrates the submarine nets in the fiord and places explosives under the German battleship. The submarine then manages to escape as the battleship explodes.[2]

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