Submarine Attack

Submarine Attack, aka La Grande Speranza, the Great Hope, Torpedo Zone

Directed by	Duilio Coletti
Written by	Oreste Biancoli, Marcаntonio Bragadin, Duilio Coletti, Ennio De Concini
Produced by	Duilio Coletti, Excelsa Film
Starring	Lois Maxwell, Renato Baldini, Folco Lulli
Cinematography	Leonida Barboni
Edited by	Giuliana Attenni
Music by	Nino Rota
Production company	Excelsa Film
Distributed by	Minerva Film I.F.E. Releasing Corporation (English version)
Release date	1954
Running time	86 minutes (English version)
Country	Italy
Languages	Italian, dubbed into English

La Grande Speranza (The Big Hope), retitled Submarine Attack and Torpedo Zone in English, is a 1954 Italian anti-war film starring Lois Maxwell, Renato Baldini and Earl Cameron. It won the Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin, and the OCIC Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.^[1] Marcantonio Bragadin was an adviser on the film, which was shot inside and on the deck of a real submarine.

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An Italian submarine captain conducts successful attacks on enemy merchant shipping in the eastern Atlantic Ocean during World War II, and then rescues the survivors of his victims, including a member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (and a dog). The captain's compulsion to save his victims culminates in his taking aboard 24 additional Danish merchant seamen; with no space down below, they are accommodated under the walkway outside the hull, at risk of drowning if the submarine is forced to submerge. He then sails the survivors hundreds of miles across the open ocean on the surface to put them ashore in the Azores.