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Release Date: 1980

Cast: Patrick Allen, Wolf Kahler, Marc Zuber, Kenneth Griffith, Barbara Kellerman, Trevor Howard, Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, Patrick Macnee, David Niven

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Adventure, Action, Action/Adventure, War film

The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film is based on the book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in World War II. The incident involved the Calcutta Light Horse's covert attack on 9 March 1943 against a German merchant ship, which had been transmitting information to U-boats from Mormugao Harbour in neutral Portugal's territory of Goa. During World War II, German submarines are sinking thousands of tons of British merchant shipping. British intelligence, based in India, believe... MORE

The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film is based on the book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in World War II. The incident involved the Calcutta Light Horse's covert attack on 9 March 1943 against a German merchant ship, which had been transmitting information to U-boats from Mormugao Harbour in neutral Portugal's territory of Goa. During World War II, German submarines are sinking thousands of tons of British merchant shipping. British intelligence, based in India, believe information is being passed to the U-Boats by a radio transmitter hidden on board one of three German ships interned in Portuguese Goa. Since Portugal is neutral, the ships cannot be attacked by conventional forces. British intelligence approach a territorial unit of aging British expatriates, the Calcutta Light Horse, to carry out the mission on their behalf. The film notes in its closing credits that during the first 11 days of March 1943, the U-boats sank 12 Allied ships in the Indian Ocean. But, after the Light Horse raid on Goa, only one ship was lost in the remainder of the month. The film LESS