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The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film, which is based on the 1978 book Boarding Party by James Leasor, is the true story of Operation Creek during the Second World War.
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The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film, which is based on the 1978 book Boarding Party by James Leasor, is the true story of Operation Creek during the Second World War.
Based on a true story from World War II, British Intelligence determines that one of three German merchant ships anchored in a harbor of the Portuguese colony of Goa is transmitting information on Allied shipping to U-boats, which in turn are sinking tons of valuable materiel.
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During World War II, German submarines are sinking thousands of tons of British merchant shipping. British intelligence, based in India, believes that information is being passed to the U-Boats by a radio transmitter hidden on board one of three German merchant ships interned in Goa, then a colony of Portugal. Since Portugal is neutral, the ships c...
Template:Div col 1. Gregory Peck as Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Henry Owain Pugh, Royal Artillery (who later rose to the rank of major-general) 2. Roger Moore as CaptainGavin Stewart (the real Gavin Stewart was a colonel) 3. David Nivenas Colonel W.H. Grice 4. Trevor Howardas Jack Cartwright 5. Barbara Kellermanas Mrs. Agnes Cromwell 6. Patrick Macnee...
The title music for The Sea Wolves was adapted by Roy Budd from the famous Warsaw Concerto of composer Richard Addinsell. Budd had, at the time, already composed or arranged numerous other film scores, notably those of The Wild Geese and Get Carter. For The Sea Wolves, Budd added lyrics by Leslie Bricusse to his, Budd's, arrangement of the Warsaw C...
Template:Original research section The Sea Wolves was, in fact,Template:Cn based on more than one clandestine operation of the Second World War. Some details of the film accord closely with those of Operation Postmaster, a January 1942 naval Special Operations Executive (SOE) raid on shipping in the harbour of Santa Isabel (now Malabo), on the isla...
The film was originally known as Boarding Party. According to the documentary The Last of the Gentleman Producers, producer Euan Lloyd says that he originally planned to reunite Moore with Wild Geese co-stars Richard Burton and Richard Harrisas Pugh and Grice. Fifty percent of the budget was provided by Lorimar. They fell out with United Artists, t...
Template:Commons category datasat doiiby sdds mpaa mlb encore wam conlieesy of the wotwots 1. Template:Rotten Tomatoes 2. Template:AllMovie title 3. Template:TCMDb title 4. Template:AFI film 5. Boarding Party by James Leasor, 1978, 2011. Template:ISBN 6. O Espião Alemão em Goa: SOE operation "Longshanks", 2nd edition – José António Barreiros 7. A c...
Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
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The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film directed by Andrew Mc Laglen. During World War II, British Intelligence brings a crew of ex-soldiers out of retirement, using their age as cover, to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission in neutral Goa.
