Sink the Bismarck!

Date: 1960
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Stars: Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, Denholm Elliot, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Karel Št?pánek
Location(s): Trafalgar Square, London

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Storyline:

Super action film about the search for and eventual destruction of the German battleship.

Additional Information:

Why did More wander around Trafalgar Square on his way to the Admiralty? Why did he and Wynyard wander the same crooked path at the end of the film? What was the attraction of the National Gallery, which in 1941 was sandbagged? And why wasn’t the statue of Charles 1st encapsulated in timber and sand? As shown in one of the films on site, but which one?

Screen captures uploaded by John Tunstill.

Jimmy Snow worked on special effects at both Pinewood and Denham Studios but a name that often remained uncredited, as with this film. An interesting Biography and her Memories of him has been written for us by his granddaughter Brigitte, all of which can be read here.

 

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  • 06 Feb 2015

More, an experience admiral, taking a SW course around the Square when he should be steering SE.

The same location by Peter.

  • Capture 2
  • 25 Jan 2015

Why isn't the statue of Charles I, behind More's left ear, not protected? There is a war on after all.

Peter advises that the ball atop the Coliseum is behind the flagpole.

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  • 06 Feb 2015

More and Wynter taking the scenic route around the Square. Obviously shot within five minutes of stb001, despite the action in the film having taken four or five days.

And I'm sure Peter took this comparison within a few minutes of picture stb001n too!