One interesting fact about this movie is the decision to sell rights to Apple TV for online streaming rather than wait until movie houses are allowed to open again. It streams with great video and with Dolby sound.
This is a fictional story, based on the 1955 novel "The Good Shepherd" by C. S. Forester, and Tom Hanks wrote the script. He also stars as the fictional Captain Krause making his first trans-Atlantic trip as Commander of the destroyer code named Greyhound.
This was early 1942, not long after Pearl Harbor and before the battle of Midway. The US was still new to the war and Germany had to be defeated. Support required many merchant ships to deliver people and goods from the US to Britain. Germans patrolled that area of the North Atlantic with a fleet of submarines (U-boats) with the goal to sink as many as possible. In the middle of the transit, far from land, air support was unavailable. The Greyhound's task, along with a small handful of other military ships, was to protect the large fleet of commercial ships until they get back into air support range. U-boats didn't do well against aircraft with bombs and depth charges.
The producers took pains to make details, conversations, and action as realistic as they could. There isn't much character development, except for a bit at the beginning the entire movie is almost non-stop action at sea as the convoy battles U-boats and gets back into aircraft range.
This is a well-made movie, my wife and I had a good viewing experience. A graphic at the end states that during the war, 3,500 commercial ships were sunk and many thousands died. Allies sank 783 U-boats.
This is a fictional story, based on the 1955 novel "The Good Shepherd" by C. S. Forester, and Tom Hanks wrote the script. He also stars as the fictional Captain Krause making his first trans-Atlantic trip as Commander of the destroyer code named Greyhound.
This was early 1942, not long after Pearl Harbor and before the battle of Midway. The US was still new to the war and Germany had to be defeated. Support required many merchant ships to deliver people and goods from the US to Britain. Germans patrolled that area of the North Atlantic with a fleet of submarines (U-boats) with the goal to sink as many as possible. In the middle of the transit, far from land, air support was unavailable. The Greyhound's task, along with a small handful of other military ships, was to protect the large fleet of commercial ships until they get back into air support range. U-boats didn't do well against aircraft with bombs and depth charges.
The producers took pains to make details, conversations, and action as realistic as they could. There isn't much character development, except for a bit at the beginning the entire movie is almost non-stop action at sea as the convoy battles U-boats and gets back into aircraft range.
This is a well-made movie, my wife and I had a good viewing experience. A graphic at the end states that during the war, 3,500 commercial ships were sunk and many thousands died. Allies sank 783 U-boats.