Zig-Zag Patterns and the Hunt for the Bismarck.

Sink the Bismarck! Is directed by Lewis Gilbert and adapted to screenplay by Edmund North from the book written by C.S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Karel Stepanek, Michael Hordern and Maurice Denham. Music is by Clifton Parker and CinemaScope photography by Christopher Challis.

World War II, the North Atlantic, the British Navy desperately tries to sink Germany's prime battleship. The scourge of the seas, The Bismarck.

Cracker-jack war movie that brings brains and brawn to... read the rest.

**l like "Sink the Bismarck!" enough to have watched it every year or so since its release in theaters in 1960. First on T.V., then VHS and finally DVD about 17 years ago. This is another film, like the "Battle of the Bulge", where different (simplified/fictionalized) other than historically correct people, especially English Admiralty and Planners, were used for theatrical effects. I have always enjoyed watching the film, but it is less historically accurate than the "Pursuit of the Graf Spee", aka, "Battle of the River Plate". For instance, Kriegsmarine Admiral Lutjens wasn't a Nazi and didn'... read the rest.