![]() Forester novel) - is peppered with “explainers,” WWII Naval jargon which the captain or his crew illuminate the audience about, the tools of the U-Boat hunting trade - “huff duff” and the like. He is the Navy version of Army Captain Miller, Hanks’ character in “Saving Private Ryan.” He’s by-the-book, reminding his young subordinates “This is what we trained for,” but probably conscious of the looks the others on the bridge exchange at every miscue, misstatement and gamble he makes in this fight. Krause is an older-than-he-should-be Navy officer who finally gets his first command after Pearl Harbor. Nazi submariners called it “Die Glückliche Zeit” - “the (second) happy time,” when the pickings were the easiest among Allied merchant ships and their escorts.Ĭapt. Ernest Krause - adrenaline rushes of alarm that will leave you exhausted by the end of this 90 minute summary of what this dangerous duty was like in those, the darkest days of the Battle of the Atlantic. This nail-biter of a thriller will make you feel like Capt. Greyhound confronts a German wolf pack of subs, attacking his convoy day and night in the “black pit” - the point farthest from land, in the middle of a Feb. The escort destroyer skipper Tom Hanks plays gets no rest, on the bridge and on his feet for days on end as the U.S.S. ![]() “Greyhound” is an old fashioned “Victory at Sea” style combat epic - narrow in focus, heroic in nature and relentlessly action-packed. ![]()
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