A naval battle between two large ships: the "Monitor" and the "Merrimack".A naval battle between two large ships: the "Monitor" and the "Merrimack".A naval battle between two large ships: the "Monitor" and the "Merrimack".
- Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys
- 4 nominations total
- Leslie Harmon
- (as Reed Edward Diamond)
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- TriviaThe Monitor and the Merrimack were re-created in models one third of their actual size, and the battle scenes between them were filmed in the big tank at Pinewood Studios, England.
- GoofsThe U.S. sloop Cumberland is shown being destroyed by gunfire. In the actual battle it was sunk by ramming.
- Quotes
Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Where is the Monitor?
Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: Commodore Smith?
[Smith wordlessly passes a dispatch to Davis]
Cmdr. Davis: The Monitor was last sighted off the Delaware-Maryland border, floundering in the very heavy weather.
Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: In other words, she may already be at the bottom of the ocean!
Abraham Lincoln: I'm sure the Monitor is still afloat. I look for her to be the veritable sling with a stone that smites the Merrimack Philistine in the forehead.
Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Mr. President, do you really have that much faith in Ericsson's untested experiment?
Abraham Lincoln: I have that much faith in Providence, which did not create this great Union to see it be destroyed by the invention of a weapon. If the Monitor doesn't stop the Merrimack, something else will. Good night, gentlemen.
Of course, you do get a good cast of veterans (E.G. Marshall and Fritz Weaver in key roles), as well as some new faces (Reed Diamond)
And it certainly doesn't hurt to have Virginia Madsen wearing a 'bussle', and for once, keeping it and the rest of her clothes on !!!
NO SARCASM MEANT HERE, THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!
Whether this movie sinks or not, it is quite an accomplishment for her to play the role of the Southern belle with style and dignity, and still makes a play for two handsome swains from BOTH sides, without even revealing her petticoat !!!
Of course she has to play the field, being a Union spy, and sometimes work gets in the way of a little romance, especially when she must shelter a Union sailor who is posing as a deserter, in order to transmit vital secrets about the Confederacy's new 'super weapon'.
As a result, she almost gets her pretty little neck stretched for her near the end, as well as losing both of her romantic interests.
Unfortunately, there aren't much fireworks beyond the big battle scene between the Monitor and the Merrimack (or Virginia), due to the need to be 'politically-correct' about certain subjects.
But from what we have here, we learn something about a crucial event in American history, as well as being a harmless way to waste a Sunday afternoon, or whenever.
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- Sep 29, 2005
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