• Photos,  Run Silent Run Deep

    {Photos} Run Silent Run Deep (1958)

    Run Silent Run Deep was filmed in cooperation with the United States Navy and aboard the US Redfish submarine. In between takes, Clark Gable apparently spent a great deal of time with the enlisted men onboard, eating meals with them. Burt Lancaster often didn’t join and limited himself to eating with the commanding officers. There are a batch of on the set photos from San Diego: Look at the look this guy is giving Clark:

  • Films,  Movie of the Week,  Run Silent Run Deep

    Movie of the Week: Run Silent Run Deep (1958)

    This week it is Run Silent Run Deep (1958). Much like Somewhere I’ll Find You a few weeks ago, I realized when I sat down to watch this that I hadn’t seen it in a very long time and that I have only seen it twice. Reason being? I don’t much like it. It’s not that it’s bad movie, it’s certainly not. I suppose it is mainly that it is just not my cup of tea; I’ve actually never even formally reviewed it for the website. Clark Gable is Commander Richardson, a steel-willed Navy captain whose submarine is sunk by the Japanese early in World War II. After a year…

  • Academy Awards

    Oscar Night! Clark Gable and Doris Day are Proud to Present…

      On March 26, 1958, Clark Gable put on a tux (complete with tails, no less) and headed to the RKO Pantages Theater for the 30th Annual Academy Awards. He attended as a presenter with his Teacher’s Pet co-star, Doris Day.  This marked one of the handful of times that Clark attended the awards and is especially significant because it is one of just a few occasions that he appeared on television. Clark and Doris presented the two awards for Best Screenplay, Adapted and Written for the Screen. Clark and Doris appear at 4:40, after Bob Hope does some stand-up (lot of Russian and I’m-never-nominated jokes). Notice they play the…

  • Films,  Nutshell Reviews,  Run Silent Run Deep,  Teacher's Pet

    Nutshell Reviews: Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) and Teacher’s Pet (1958)

    In a Nutshell: Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) Directed by: Robert Wise Co-stars: Burt Lancaster, Don Rickles, Jack Warden Synopsis: Gable is Commander Richardson, a steel-willed Navy captain whose submarine is sunk by the Japanese early in World War II. After a year strapped behind a desk, he jumps at the opportunity to command another submarine–much to the chagrin of Lieutenant Bledsoe (Lancaster), who was set to take over the sub. The crew all sides with Bledsoe and resists Richardson’s authority. There is much uproar when the crew of the sub discovers that Richardson has gone off of their planned path to seek revenge on the Japanese sub that blew…