Tides of War

I was wondering... I just got a copy of the movie, "The Battle of the River Plate" (also known as The Pursuit of the Graf Spee) from an EBay auction, and while it's a great movie, it wasn't the movie I was thinking I would get.

Can anyone recall the title of a movie, perhaps made in the sixties or seventies, that describe the same events? I know I have seen it before, and it ends with a mention that Langsdorff had killed himself in the Imperial Flag (not the Nazi one). It used to run on A and E and The History Channel, but I haven't seen it in ages.

Any thoughts?

Rob+

I don't see why you disparaged it. I mean, it had the actual HMS Achilles and HMS Cumberland as themselves for one thing.

I don't see why you disparaged it. I mean, it had the actual HMS Achilles and HMS Cumberland as themselves for one thing.

No, no dispairagement! I loved it... watched it again last night, for the fourth time!

But it wasn't the movie I thought it was. I would still like to have the other one.

Rob+

The only one I know is the 1956 version by Powell and Pressberger

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/440192/

And that mentions the death of Langsdorff

The only one I know is the 1956 version by Powell and Pressberger
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/440192/

And that mentions the death of Langsdorff

Actually, the Powell/Pressberger film omits any mention of Langsdorff's suicide.

As the review states: "Ending with the amicable parting of Dove and Langsdorff, The Battle of the River Plate omits the tragic final act of the Graf Spee story. In a hotel room in Buenos Aires a few days after scuttling his own ship and, unable to cope with defeat, Captain Langsdorff committed suicide. His body was found dressed in full uniform and wrapped in the battle-flag of his sunken vessel."

Rob+

ok so your right have just watched it:) I could have sworn it was mentioned,:)