The sea wolves are coming

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Movie
German title The sea wolves are coming
Original title The Sea Wolves
The sea wolves are coming
Country of production United Kingdom , United States , Switzerland
original language English , German
Publishing year 1980
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Andrew V. McLaglen
script Reginald Rose
production Euan Lloyd
music Roy Budd
Richard Addinsell
camera Tony Imi
cut John Glen
occupation

Roger Moore on the set

The sea wolves are coming is a British adventure film (original title: The Sea Wolves ) based on the book Secret Command. Special operation "Trompeta". German submarines in the Indian Ocean (original title: Boarding Party ) by James Leasor . It was produced in the UK in 1979 under the direction of Andrew V. McLaglen . The film opened in German cinemas on August 21, 1980.

action

Second World War , 1943 - Allied convoys are sunk precisely by German submarines off the Indian coast . The reason for this is a German merchant ship , the Ehrenfels , which is anchored in front of the port of Goa and sends ship data to the submarines through a spy. Colonel Pugh and Captain Stewart of the British Special Operations Executive are set to find out where the German spy is operating from.

The first attempt fails after the two officers killed the German agent Trompeta in a scuffle. To board the station, Pugh recruited the old members of the Calcutta Light Horse Club who hadn't had a gun in hand in 40 years. With the help of this troop, a diversionary maneuver on land and the explosives expert Yogi, Pugh succeeds in destroying the transmitter on board the Ehrenfels . Meanwhile, Captain Stewart has identified the spy who turns out to be Mrs. Cromwell.

production

occupation

The first leading role of Colonel Lewis Pugh occupied producer Euan Lloyd with Gregory Peck , a little later he asked Roger Moore for the role of Captain Gavin Stewart . Lloyd met with both of them in Los Angeles , where he discussed the script with Moore and Peck. There Peck suggested David Niven, who was friends with him and Roger Moore, for the role of Colonel WH Grice . Actually there was no more money in the budget for Niven's commitment, but Lloyd topped up the budget out of pocket in order to be able to commit Niven.

Euan Lloyd had previously worked successfully with Roger Moore in The Wild Geese Come (1978). And so Lloyd engaged not only Moore, but also numerous other participants from the film The Wild Geese Come . Andrew V. McLaglen took over the direction again, Reginald Rose wrote the script again and John Glen was responsible for the editing. Some actors ( Patrick Allen , Kenneth Griffith , Jack Watson ) also appeared again.

title

For the film based on James Leasor's novel Boarding Party , the title was changed to The Sea Wolves , a similar title to The Wild Geese , the original English title of The Wild Geese Come . A similar approach was adopted for the German-language distribution title and the film was distributed in this country under the title Die Seewölfeommen . In terms of content, however, both films have no parallels.

Reviews

"A star film depicting the war from an adventure perspective, staged conventionally and with relatively little tension after authentic events."

- Lexicon of international film

"Fortunately, the somewhat stiff company that" The Wild Geese Coming "director Andrew V. McLaglen shot based on a true story doesn't take itself too seriously."

- cinema.de .

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released on LP and in 1999 again on CD by Castle Music. A modern disco-like version of the Warsaw Concerto was added to this, which comes from a different production.

Original edition

  1. The Precious Moments sung by Matt Monro
  2. Overture / Warsaw Concerto
  3. Enemy Beneath
  4. GHQ / In Goa
  5. Love at first Sight (Warsaw Concerto)
  6. The pursuit
  7. The Romance (Warsaw Concerto)
  8. On the way
  9. In Love (Warsaw Concerto)
  10. The Phoebe
  11. Melody for Lovers (Warsaw Concerto)
  12. The Truth / Warsaw Concerto
  13. Boarding party
  14. The Betrayal
  15. Warsaw Concerto
  16. Warsaw Concerto (Bonus)

synchronization

The dubbing was done at Cinephon Filmproduktions GmbH in Berlin . Christine Lembach wrote the dialogue book and Peter Baumgartner directed the dialogue .

role actor Voice actor
Colonel Lewis Pugh Gregory Peck Jochen Schröder
Captain Gavin Stewart Roger Moore Niels Clausnitzer
Colonel WH Grice David Niven Friedrich Schoenfelder
Mrs. Cromwell Barbara Kellerman Rita Engelmann
Jack Cartwright Trevor Howard Arnold Marquis
Major 'Yogi' Crossley Patrick Macnee Joachim Kerzel
Collin MacKenzie Patrick Allen Horst Schön

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The sea wolves come in the lexicon of international filmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  2. ^ Roger Moore : The Autobiography: My Name is Bond ... James Bond IP Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-931624-62-0 , pp. 280 f.
  3. ↑ The sea wolves come from cinema.de (accessed on March 11, 2013)
  4. ↑ The sea wolves are coming. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .