Ghostboat (2006) (TV)

Director:

Stuart Orme

Writers:

Neal R. Burger (novel)
Guy Burt (screenplay)

Release Date:

9 April 2006 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A British Sub goes missing at the end of the war leaving only one crew member surviving. Everyone believes it lost to the bottom of the ocean...

Plot Keywords:

Sinking | Russian | Cold War | 1980s | WWII

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

David Jason	...	Jack Hardy
Ian Puleston-Davies	...	Travis
Tony Haygarth	...	Cassidy
Julian Wadham	...	Captain Byrnes
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dean Ambridge	...	Planesman #2
Tony Bluto	...	Dockyard Engineer
Max Bollinger	...	Soviet Naval Captain
Crispin Bonham-Carter	...	Redding
Jonathan Cullen	...	Captain Basquine
Steven Elliot	...	Scientist (as Steven Elliott)
Roger Evans	...	Monroe
Robert Horwell	...	Mason
James Laurenson	...	Admiral Nealy
Victor Lindegrin	...	Soviet Political Officer
Paul Lockyer	...	Oakland Sailor
Jamie Martin	...	Tyler
David Nellist	...	1943 Crewman
Ricky Nixon	...	Langdon
Victor Sobchak	...	Soviet General
Yuri Stepanov	...	Russian Captain
Alan Stocks	...	Peterson
Ian Targett	...	Captain Lyle
Robert Whitelock	...	Spender
Lee Whitlock	...	Reeves
Tristram Wymark	...	Naval Officer

Runtime:

Japan:111 min (DVD version) | UK:180 min (including commercials) (2 parts)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Yorkshire Television (YTV)

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Submarines of the WW2 era didn't have the now-familiar rotating radius on circular display.

Excellent thriller, very eerie, superb acting, 10/10

I don't tend to watch a lot of television (preferring to stick to DVDs) so something has really got to interest me to get me to firstly remember the programme's on and secondly to actually watch.

The thing that immediately attracted me to the programme was, of course, fabulous actor David Jason. And yet again he excels himself in this wonderful thriller.

The story is based on a book also called 'Ghostboat' and is about a submarine called the Scorpion that surfaces in 1981-but which hasn't been seen since the second world war where it was presumed to have sunk. When it sank only one survivor was found, Jack Hardy (David Jason) who can't remember anything due to amnesia) When the sub resurfaces, Hardy is invited to go on a journey on the sub, with another crew and retrace the path the Scorpion took to find out what happened to it.

When they first go onto the sub to check out the damage and pull out the bodies of the dead, they find something astonishing. There are no bodies, everything is as the crew left it 40 years ago, nothing has changed.

And so the journey begins. Hardy can hear voices, things are happening in the same way they did 40 years ago-and the crew are beginning to change. As Hardy says 'The past is breaking through' The CGI effects in the film are very, very good, although not perfect, the storyline is gripping, the acting and cast are stellar.

The perfect thing for the family to gather in front of the telly to watch-10/10!