e so thirsty. It was a good film.They Were ExpendableDirector: John FordScreenwriter: Film Genre: Cast: Guadalcanal DiaryDirector: Lewis SeilerScreenwriter: Richard Tregaskis (book) and Lamar Trotti Film Genre: Action/WarCast: Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, Anthony Quinn, William BendixDas BootDirector: Wolfgang PetersenScreenwriter: Lothar G. Buchheim (novel) and Wolfgang Petersen Film Genre: Action/Drama/WarCast: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Erwin LederThis movie, which came out in 1981, is about life on a German U-Boat during World War II. It explores what life might have been like on a U-Boat. This story starts in a bar the night before the U-Boat goes out to sea. It continues with the sub, showing the different roles of the crew. It shows how they dive deep into the ocean and how they come up above water. The U-Boat is shot at many times by Allied destroyers. The movie showed how it affected the U-Boat. The plot becomes thicker when the U-Boat must go through a line of British destroyers in order to get to where their orders were. The U-Boat dives all the way past 200 meters underwater. It hits bottom and the crew thinks they are done for. Miraculously, somehow Johann fixes some things on the boat and they are able to rise to the top of the water. They make it to the port safely. Ironically, as soon as they come into the port, they are bombed and just about the whole crew died.The film is extremely realistic. I felt like I was in the sub with them. I have seen subs before and this one looked like it was pretty real. I also think that the characters were very authentic. I liked how it showed them as real people who became afraid, who joked around, who had girlfriends and wives back home, and showed other emotions that you would expect them to show in their circumstances. Not all of the men were gung-ho for Hitler, which I would have expected. Some of the men even seemed a little resentful of Hi...
