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The Sea Wolves [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![The Sea Wolves [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nB8ht3qNL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Andrew V. Mclaglen
Actors: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: £15.02
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Rating:  3 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0790742837
UPC: 012569070929
EAN: 9780790742830
ASIN: 0790742837
Theatrical Release Date: June 5, 1981
Release Date: November 23, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 The Sea Wolves April 29, 2004
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
An amazing true story from the Second World War. Based on the book"Boarding Party" this film is fairly faithful to the original. Thoroughlyrecommended.
 A Style We Once Had December 28, 2007
ianrmillard
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is one of the most watchable adventure films out, based on a book which itself was an account of a similar raid during WW2. The action was executed by a part-time Territorial unit called the Calcutta Light Horse, last in action circa 1900! Most of the members were tea buyers or other expat British businessmen, who played polo and drank at the bar of their rather magnificent club-like HQ in Calcutta. They were used as a deniable force (ie if captured, it would all be a frolic of their own) to sink three German ships in Goa harbour, the Goanese enclave then being a neutral Portuguese colony. One of the ships harbours a transmitter used to relay details of Allied shipping for a U-Boat to attack at sea.
This film is a sister film to The Wild Geese, made about the same time and featuring some of the same actors, notably, Roger Moore. The music, arranged by Roy Budd (also of Wild Geese fame), is based on the WW2 pop classic "Warsaw Symphony". The film was made on location and never lacks action or pace, even in the slower scenes involving the beautiful Anglo-German Abwehr agent in Goa (who of course gets involved with Moore...).
In fact the film seems to take its facts partly from the real WW2 operation in Goa and partly from another real operation in Fernando Po, a Spanish (i.e., like Goa, neutral) island in the Bight of Biafra of West-Central Africa, now part of the "independent" "state" of Equatorial Guinea). As in the film, the British SOE operatives paid for the girls from the local bordellos to entertain the crew of the German ship at a huge noisy party while the skeleton crew aboard were overwhelmed. Unlike the film attack, though, the ship was actually sailed away and back to the UK, together with its valuable cargo! (cf. Churchill's Secret War, by Channel 4 TV).
Like The Wild Geese, this film is great entertainment, very well made and having a wider, more 3-D plot and range of characterization than the former. Overall, a rather better film. Try it.
A little closer to the truth than most war films November 10, 2008
O. G. Hunter (Towcester, UK)
This is an enjoyable film (based on the book "Boarding Party" by James Leasor) about an operation to scupper a German boat in Goa harbour in 1943. My grandfather was in the attack party, recruited as their explosives expert. Here is his description of the events:
"While at the Khadakvasla camp I was asked to join a proposed expedition to the then neutral port of Goa on the West Coast of India. The scheme had been hatched by two senior officers of S.O.E. to capture an almost new German liner that had been sheltering in Goa harbour since 1939, and the plan was for a party of irregulars from Calcutta with one or two S.O.E. officers to carry out the mission. The irregulars were, if my memory serves me right, Calcutta Scottish a sort of Territorial Army Unit. They were mostly in the Jute industry. So we sailed in a dredger from Cochin as I remember. We practised chasing around in the dark and on the night of our attack we slung nets on grappling irons on to the deck of the German ship and climbed up them. I was loaded with an explosive charge to slap on to a steel door which we knew would be sealed against us. We had hardly got on board when there was a muffled bang in the depths of the ship; one of the crew had scuttled it and down we went until we settled on the bottom of the harbour. When the retreat or return to our ship was sounded we found that we once more had to climb up the netting as our boat was standing higher in the water than the German ship.
"So back I went to Khadakvasla after what had seemed to me to have been a fiasco, although a different slant was put on to the affair by a book and then a film featuring Gregory Peck and David Niven and several others. As far as I can remember we came away with two German sailors who later helped our instructors by making model German aircraft etc."
Not quite as glamorous as the film (or book) make out, but it's a good story and watchable film nonetheless.
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