Gray Lady Down |  | Director: David Greene
Actors: Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Stephen McHattie
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  23 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Norwegian (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD20936D
UPC: 025192093623
EAN: 0025192093623
Theatrical Release Date: April 1978
Release Date: May 25, 2004
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Product Description
A navy captain uses his experimental snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 10/24/2006 Starring: Charlton Heston Ronny Cox Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Pg Director: David Greene
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 Heston August 3, 2009
Robert Rattray (Wondai, Queensland, Australia)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the few decent movies around in these 'modern' days with next to no vulgar language, or nudity!
 Gray Lady Down May 6, 2009
Big Buddy (Turlock, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I Feel this is pretty realistic, it shows what can be accurately done and U.S. capabilities.
 Tired and routine disaster movie July 25, 2008
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
At times feeling like Airport '77 without the plane or the all-star cast, 1978's Gray Lady Down came out in the dog days of the disaster genre when Charlton Heston's career as a big screen leading man was on its last legs, and there's a sense of tired routine to this tale of a sub stranded on an unstable ocean ledge after a collision with a fishing vessel. The last major submarine movie until The Hunt for Red October, it suffers the problems of most peacetime submarine movies. Without the standard can't fail wartime dramatics of the genre - depth charges, torpedoes, silent running et al - it's a pretty static affair with Heston and his crew spending most of the film sitting around waiting to be rescued while Stacy Keach hovers around the rescue ship's control room and David Carradine and Ned Beatty sit around watching from their prototype mini-sub in murky model shots.
A lot of money has been spent, but to little effect. David Greene's flat direction doesn't disguise the fact that there's little in the way of tension while at times you can't help wondering if the price of the Navy's co-operation was eliminating any possible drama from the script in the fear it might make them look bad. The film does briefly raise the possibility of conflict between Heston and Ronny Cox's ExO over responsibility for the accident only to quickly let the matter drop lest anyone get the impression that not all of the navy's sub commanders are at the top of their game.
Christopher Reeve has a couple of lines in a bit part and it's nice to briefly see Heston's War Lord co-star Rosemary Forsyth as his wife even if all but one of her scenes ended up on the cutting room floor, but the film remains a pedestrian time-filler. Even Jerry Fielding adds nothing much to the proceedings with his TV movie-style score, bizarrely built around the Carol of the Bells.
An Undersea Adventure January 7, 2008
Jeffrey T. Munson (Dixon, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Charlton Heston stars in this exciting film about an American nuclear submarine which is disabled in a collision with another ship.
Heston stars as Capt. Paul Blanchard, commander of the submarine USS Neptune. Blanchard is retiring and has just turned command of the boat over to Commander Dave Samuelson (Ronny Cox). The ship is making its way back to port in very foggy conditions when suddenly, a Norwegian freighter slams into the sub. The freighter had lost its radar and could not see the sub. Immediately, the sub begins to sink, finally coming to rest 1,450 feet below the surface of the sea and perched precariously on an underwater ledge.
The Norwegians managed to notify the Navy about the accident and soon, Captain Al Bennett (Stacy Keach), along with the Navy's DSRV recovery sub is racing to the scene of the collision. Also included in the rescue effort is Captain Gates (David Carradine), the pilot of an experimental submersible called the Snark; a tiny two-man sub which can be used for various tasks. Gates' job is to clear debris off the deck of the Neptune so the DSRV can dock with the Neptune's escape hatch.
Meanwhile, the Neptune has been enduring several undersea earth slides which threaten to push the sub off the shelf its resting on and into a deep undersea canyon. Blanchard does his best to keep the morale of his crew up, but its become a race against time as the sub begins to lose oxygen and more compartments are flooded by the seawater. Several tricks, including an underwater detonation of explosives, are tried to correct the sub's angle so the DSRV can successfully dock with the Neptune's escape hatch. Finally, the DSRV is able to dock with the Neptune and the task of transporting the surviving crew members to the surface begins. However, the sub begins to slip off its ledge before the rescue can be completed. Will the remaining crew be rescued, or will they slide off the ledge and into the canyon with the Neptune?
This is an excellent film. Made during the height of the Cold War, this film shows what could happen if an American submarine were to sink in a deep part of the ocean. The DSRV has since become the main rescue vehicle for American subs. The film's story is very good, and the acting, especially by Keach, Heston, and Carradine, is first-rate.
I give this movie my highest recommendation. The story is believable and the action is non-stop. Fans of Naval history and action films will be sure to enjoy this exciting movie.
Right UP your ALLEY... April 22, 2007
Chris M. Howard
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
we'll here is yet another reason Charlton Heston is a really great actor. one of the best of them. i'll be really sad to ever see him go. some of my biggest memories of being a kid we're of his movies.
this one is no different he's taking another leap and bound into disaster movies. just this one is underwater. some great actors playing along side him "Stacey Keach" and "David Carradine".
if you like Heston or even if you are into Disaster movies (an odd fascination)this one is "right up your alley". Heston is no amateur to disaster movies, he's done his share of them. hope you enjoy it!
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