ABOVE US THE WAVES - 1955 RARE BRITISH MOVIE
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ABOVE US THE WAVES - 1955 RARE BRITISH MOVIE
Above Us the Waves is a 1955 British war film directed by Ralph Thomas, about human torpedo and midget submarine attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz. It is based on two true-life attacks on the Tirpitz by British commando frogmen, first using Chariot manned torpedoes in Operation Title in 1942, and then X-Craft midget submarines in Operation Source in 1943. Some of the original equipment was used in the film.
The Royal Navy is concerned about constant attacks on convoys by German submarines and having to keep "half the fleet" watching for the German battleship Tirpitz. The Tirpitz is 60 miles from the sea inside a Norwegian fjord and attempts by the Royal Air Force to sink her have failed. Commander Fraser (Mills) is determined to prove that an attack by human torpedoes is practical, despite scepticism from the higher echelons that such an operation would be feasible.
Fraser assembles and trains a force of British commando frogmen officers and ratings to use the Mk I Human Torpedo manned torpedoes (Chariots) at their Scottish base. After receiving a refusal to allow the operation to go ahead from an admiral, the team use dummy mines to attack the admiral's own ship using the Chariots.
Cyril Chamberlain as Chief Petty Officer Chubb Anthony Wager as George Leslie Weston as Winley Lyndon Brook as Diver navigator, X2 Thomas Heathcote as Hutchins Anthony Newley as Engineer, X2 John Horsley as Lieutenant Anderson William Franklyn as No. 1, X2 Guido Lorraine as Officer interpreter Raymond Francis as Officer on towing submarine Walter Gotell as German officer on Tirpitz (uncredited) John Mills as Commander Fraser John Gregson as Lieutenant Alec Duffy Donald Sinden as Lieutenant Tom Corbett James Robertson Justice as Admiral Ryder Michael Medwin as Steward Smart James Kenney as Abercrombie O.E. Hasse as Captain of the Tirpitz Lee Patterson as Cox William Russell as Ramsey Theodore Bikel as German officer Harry Towb as McCleery
Above Us the Waves is a 1955 British war film directed by Ralph Thomas, about human torpedo and midget submarine attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz. It is based on two true-life attacks on the Tirpitz by British commando frogmen, first using Chariot manned torpedoes in Operation Title in 1942, and then X-Craft midget submarines in Operation Source in 1943. Some of the original equipment was used in the film.
The Royal Navy is concerned about constant attacks on convoys by German submarines and having to keep "half the fleet" watching for the German battleship Tirpitz. The Tirpitz is 60 miles from the sea inside a Norwegian fjord and attempts by the Royal Air Force to sink her have failed. Commander Fraser (Mills) is determined to prove that an attack by human torpedoes is practical, despite scepticism from the higher echelons that such an operation would be feasible.
Fraser assembles and trains a force of British commando frogmen officers and ratings to use the Mk I Human Torpedo manned torpedoes (Chariots) at their Scottish base. After receiving a refusal to allow the operation to go ahead from an admiral, the team use dummy mines to attack the admiral's own ship using the Chariots.
Cyril Chamberlain as Chief Petty Officer Chubb Anthony Wager as George Leslie Weston as Winley Lyndon Brook as Diver navigator, X2 Thomas Heathcote as Hutchins Anthony Newley as Engineer, X2 John Horsley as Lieutenant Anderson William Franklyn as No. 1, X2 Guido Lorraine as Officer interpreter Raymond Francis as Officer on towing submarine Walter Gotell as German officer on Tirpitz (uncredited) John Mills as Commander Fraser John Gregson as Lieutenant Alec Duffy Donald Sinden as Lieutenant Tom Corbett James Robertson Justice as Admiral Ryder Michael Medwin as Steward Smart James Kenney as Abercrombie O.E. Hasse as Captain of the Tirpitz Lee Patterson as Cox William Russell as Ramsey Theodore Bikel as German officer Harry Towb as McCleery