The Silent Enemy

About The Silent Enemy

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt.

The Silent Enemy (1958) is a history war film directed by William Fairchild. It runs 112 minutes and was released in March 1958.

Its themes are royal navy, world war ii, and frogmen.

Laurence Harvey appears as Lieutenant "Buster" Crabb, R.N.V.R., Michael Craig as Leading Seaman Knowles, Dawn Addams as Third Officer Jill Masters, W.R.N.S, and John Clements as The Admiral. The screenplay is by William Fairchild. In the United States it streams on MGM+ Amazon Channel.

Dunkirk, In Which We Serve, and The Cruel Sea make useful companions to The Silent Enemy. It carries a NR rating.