---
title: 'Sink the Bismarck! (1960)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Lewis Gilbert'
released: '1960-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 93
genres:
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/sink-the-bismarck-1960'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054310/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

1960 · 93 min · War · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the 1958 book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. It is the only film made that deals directly with the operations, chase and sinking of the battleship Bismarck by the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Although war films were common in the 1960s, Sink the Bismarck! was seen as something of an anomaly, with much of its time devoted to the "unsung back-room planners as much as on the combatants themselves". Its historical accuracy, in particular, met with much praise despite a number of inconsistencies.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Lewis Gilbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-gilbert)
- **Screenplay:** [C. S. Forester](https://cinepixo.com/people/c-s-forester), [Edmund H. North](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-h-north)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Clifton Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/clifton-parker)
- **Producer:** [John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-knatchbull-7th-baron-brabourne)
- **Director of Photography:** [Christopher Challis](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-challis)
- **Editor:** [Peter R. Hunt](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-r-hunt)

## Cast

- [Walter Hudd](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-hudd) as Lancelot Holland
- [Dana Wynter](https://cinepixo.com/people/dana-wynter) as WRNS Second Officer Anne Davis
- [Graham Stark](https://cinepixo.com/people/graham-stark)
- [Norman Shelley](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-shelley) as Winston Churchill
- [Ian Hendry](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-hendry)
- [Mark Burns](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-burns)
- [Robert Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-brown)
- [Frederick Schiller](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-schiller)
- [David Hemmings](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-hemmings) as seaman
- [Walter Gotell](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-gotell)
- [Robert Riettii](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-riettii)
- [Carl Möhner](https://cinepixo.com/people/carl-mohner) as Ernst Lindemann
- [Laurence Naismith](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurence-naismith) as Dudley Pound
- [Karel Štěpánek](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-stepanek) as Günther Lütjens
- [Victor Maddern](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-maddern) as Leading Seaman

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/sink-the-bismarck-1960
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