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In Enemy Hands

 
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In Enemy Hands

  • Director: Tony Giglio
  • Genre: War
  • Movie Type: Sea Adventure, War Adventure
  • Themes: War At Sea
  • Main Cast: William H. Macy, Til Schweiger, Scott Caan, Thomas Kretschmann, Lauren Holly
  • Release Year: 2003
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 98 minutes

Plot

As Hitler's grip of fear continues to tighten during World War II, the capture of the U.S.S. Swordfish by a German U-boat leads to a brutal struggle for survival between axis and allies deep beneath the ocean surface. Following the capture of the U.S.S. Swordfish, the German crew soon begins to fall ill to a particularly powerful strain of meningitis, leaving the American prisoners-of-war obligated to work with the remaining German crew to keep the vessel from descending to the bottom of the ocean. Though they are able to cast aside their differences in the name of survival, the discovery that the ship has been located by a U.S. carrier forces the prisoners into a harrowing struggle for survival. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Jeremy Sisto; Ian Somerhalder

Credit

Tony Giglio - Director, Tony Giglio - Screenwriter, John E. Deaver - Screenwriter

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U-571; The Hunt for Red October; Crimson Tide; San Demetrio, London; Gray Lady Down; Das Boot; Run Silent, Run Deep
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In Enemy Hands
Directed by Tony Giglio
Produced by Artisan Entertainment
Splendid Pictures
Starring Til Schweiger
Thomas Kretschmann
William H. Macy
Jeremy Sisto
Scott Caan
Ian Somerhalder
Music by Steven Bramson
Cinematography Gerry Lively
Editing by Peter Mergus
Harvey Rosenstock
Distributed by Artisan Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment
Release date(s) 25 February 2004
Running time 94 mins
Country United States

In Enemy Hands aka "U-Boat", is a World War II submarine film released in 2004, starring William H. Macy.

Plot

Macy stars as the COB (chief of the boat) on a fictitious US Navy submarine, the USS Swordfish (although there was an actual USS Swordfish that served the US Navy in World War II, it is not the same one depicted in this film). While on patrol in the North Atlantic, the ship is ambushed by two German U-boats. Swordfish destroys one of them, but a torpedo fired from the second one, the fictitious German submarine U-429, critically damages the American submarine. Eight members of the American crew escape and are held prisoner by U-429. However, the American executive officer had previously contracted meningitis given it to the captain, who brought it on board the U-429. Within days, over half the German crew, as well as some of the Americans contract the disease and die. Although the Germans and Americans begin to work together to keep the boat operational, another U-boat and an American destroyer threatens to overwhelm their tentative truce.

Alternate titles

  • When film was shown on Albanian TV, film was named "Underwater Prison" = and in some TV schedules "U-429:Underwater Prison".

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