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The Battle of the River Plate is a 1956 war film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle and Peter Finch. In the United States the film was retitled Pursuit of the Graf Spee. The film portrays the Battle of the River Plate, a naval battle of 1939, between a Royal Navy force of three cruiser (HMS ''Exeter'', HMS ''Ajax'' and HMS ''Achilles'') and the German pocket battleship ''Admiral Graf Spee''. Unlike many British... full article at wikipedia
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  • Nov 30, 1956
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  • The tremendous story of the victory over the Graf Spee.
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  • 119.0min
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  • 70004547
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