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Run Silent, Run Deep

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Run Silent, Run Deep	comment	Run Silent, Run Deep is a 1958 film directed by Robert Wise, starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster.Commander P.J. Richardson (Gable) had his submarine sunk in the Bungo Straits by the Japanese destroyer Akikaze in 1942. Richardson, who survived the sinking but was reassigned to desk duty, is obsessed with the sinking of his ship, continually running war games to try and figure out what went wrong. Eventually he wrangles a posting as captain of the submarine USS Nerka. The Nerka's executive officer, Lt. Bledsoe (Lancaster) is none too happy about missing out on the chance to be CO of the Nerka himself. Tensions between Richardson and Bledsoe increase even further when Richardson tells his men that he's taking the Nerka back to the Bungo Straits, in search of the Akikaze, in direct defiance of Navy orders telling him to stay out of that area.If not the Trope Maker for Hot Sub-on-Sub Action and other submarine warfare tropes in film, definitely a Trope Codifier. Loosely based on a novel by Real Life submarine commander Edward Beach. Other than the Dawson Casting of Gable and Lancaster—both decades too old to play sub officers—considered one of the more realistic depictions of submarine warfare, with effects that were cutting-edge for 1958.Insult comic Don Rickles has a non-comic part as one of the crew.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_3e95c264	type	Time to Step Up, Commander
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_3e95c264	comment	Time to Step Up, Commander: Lt. Bledsoe objects to Cmdr. Richardson's obsessive hunt for the Akikaze, as do his officers, who want Bledsoe to take command. After Richardson cracks his skull during combat, Bledsoe finally does take command, and he orders the Nerka back home. Gable, who was concerned with his super-macho screen image, insisted that Richardson be injured prior to being relieved of command.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_4f8b159a	type	Passed-Over Promotion
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_4f8b159a	comment	Passed-Over Promotion: Bledsoe had been acting captain of the Nerka for some time since the previous captain fell ill when he sailed into Pearl, and everyone on the ship, including him, expected him to be promoted to official captain and left in command. Then Richardson talks the Admiralty into giving him another sea-going command and Bledsoe's promotion is put on hold something the younger officer resents.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_539a54d	type	Ending Memorial Service
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_539a54d	comment	Ending Memorial Service: Richardson's burial at sea ends the movie.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Exactly two parts for a woman (three if you count the pinup poster the men pat on the ass for good luck)—Richardson's wife, who appears in one scene at Richardson's home before the Nerka sets sail, and the unseen woman who voices the Tokyo Rose propaganda broadcasts. Justified as women serving on subs wasn't exactly a thing back in WWII.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_5f014f7a	type	Sub Story
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_5f014f7a	comment	Sub Story: One of the better ones.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_6383a034	comment	The Mutiny: Bledsoe relieves Richardson of command and orders a course back to Pearl Harbor. Until he changes his mind and goes back to the Bungo Straits.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: The Akikaze is destroyed quickly and without much of a fight during the final battle, only for it to turn out that it had a previously unknown submarine escort which proves to be a much greater threat.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License – Military: If a submarine is sunk while submerged, as was the case with Richardson's first boat, there's a nearly 100% chance it will go down with a loss of all hands. Of course, if it had, there wouldn't be a movie.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The opening scene is Richardson's previous sub getting sunk by the Japanese.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_889f217f	type	Hot Sub-on-Sub Action
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_889f217f	comment	Hot Sub-on-Sub Action: Pretty realistically done. The Japanese sub twice fires torpedoes at the Nerka while underwater, and twice misses. When the Nerka finally sinks the Japanese sub, it does so while the Japanese sub is on the surface. Furthermore, the men of the Nerka are surprised that there's a sub attacking subs; it's completely unexpected.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: In the scenes that occur on the Japanese destroyer Akikaze or the unnamed Japanese submarine, none of the comments the Japanese naval officers make to each other are translated for the audience.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Tokyo Rose propaganda message about the Nerka's loss to the Akikaze allows Bledsoe to figure out how the Japanese saw them coming, which lets him come up with a plan to win the rematch.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Averted. Richardson falls and hits his head during battle. This causes him to suffer recurring and prolonged blackouts that cause him to be relieved of command and he later dies of lingering internal injuries.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_b920d681	type	Dive! Dive! Dive!
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_b920d681	comment	Dive! Dive! Dive!: Done realistically, and not in the panicked way that this line is often delivered in movies.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_c2c28e90	type	Tokyo Rose
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_c2c28e90	comment	Tokyo Rose: The crew sometimes listens to her. A transmission from Tokyo Rose in which she identifies several of the crew by name tips off Bledsoe as to how the Nerka was tracked—the Japanese recovered their trash dumps.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_c621dd28	type	Silent Running Mode
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_c621dd28	comment	Silent Running Mode: Done by both the crew of the USS Nerka and, later, by the Japanese submarine that was hunting them. This sets up a suspenseful sequence in which both the Nerka and the Japanese sub go quiet and even cut their engines, eventually drifting just past each other underwater.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: When Bledsoe realized that the Japanese found the Nerka's trash, which allowed them to set up an ambush. This piece of information leads him to change his mind and execute Richardson's attack plan. Richardson has one of his own when he figures out the mysterious Morse transmission is coming from a Japanese submarine. Turns out it was a submarine, not the Akikaze, which sank his ship and the others lost in Bungo Straits.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: Everybody is confined to the Nerka while the plot plays out.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Almost all the incidents in the film actually happened on American submarines in WWII, but not all on the same mission, nor all to the same ship.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_e5488c95	type	Taps
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_e5488c95	comment	Taps: Becomes part of the soundtrack at the very end, right after Richardson's body has been committed to the sea.
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Run Silent, Run Deep / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Run Silent, Run Deep / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Commander Richardson, obsessed as he is, does have one nice moment. Namely, when a man is caught outside as the sub is diving and frantically pounding on the hatch loud enough for the crew to realize the situation, Commander Richardson instantly orders an emergency surface to save him from drowning.
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Run Silent, Run Deep	hasFeature	Burial at Sea / int_caa12eb1
Run Silent, Run Deep	hasFeature	Dive! Dive! Dive! / int_caa12eb1
Run Silent, Run Deep	hasFeature	Ending Memorial Service / int_caa12eb1
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Run Silent, Run Deep	hasFeature	Silent Running Mode / int_caa12eb1
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Run Silent, Run Deep	hasFeature	Time to Step Up, Commander / int_caa12eb1
Run Silent, Run Deep	hasFeature	Tokyo Rose / int_caa12eb1

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