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Hi,

I am desperatly looking for the name of a movie (American ? English ?) which depicted the story of a German raider during WWII.

I saw it 30 years ago or so, and I have no clue such as an actor, a date ... The only thing I remember is the end : The German raider was sunk but would not raise the Nazi flag so that there would be still a doubt about its real nationality.

I thought my quest would be an easy one, especially with the use of such movie database as IMDB. But it is not I eventually found your blog (after visiting Wikipedia), and I guess you are probably the right man in the right place.

Do you know the movie I am refering to ?

By the way, I have learned a lot thanks to you.

Thanks a lot.

Kind regards from France
Stéphane Germain

Stephane,

Thank you for your kind words, much appreciated, I think the movie you seek is:

Under Ten Flags. ( aka as Sotto Diece Bandiere )

Italy/US in 1960 and it ran for 92 minutes.

It was the story of the German Armed Merchant Raider Atlantis, she sank 22 Allied ships before the British County Class Cruiser HMS Devonshire sunk this raider. It had Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, and John Ericon in it, and
was directed by Duilio Coletti.

Under Ten Flags

ORIGINAL TITLE: Sotto dieci bandiere (Under Ten Flags)
YEAR: 1960
RUNNING TIME: 92 min.
COUNTRY:
DIRECTOR: Duilio Coletti
SCREENWRITER: Duilio Coletti & Ulrich Mohr
COMPOSER:
CINEMATOGRAPHER: B&W
CAST: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylene Demongeot, John Ericson, Folco Lulli, Cecil Parke, Alex Nicol, Eleonora Rossi Drago
STUDIO/PRODUCER: Co-production Italy-USA; Dino de Laurentiis Production. A Paramount Pictures release
GENRE: War

Best regards,
Mac.

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