The Sea Wolves (1980)

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The Sea Wolves is a 1980 war film starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven. The film is based on the book Boarding Party by James Leasor, which itself is based on a real incident which took place in the Second World War. The incident involved The Calcutta Light Horse's covert attack against a German merchantship which had been transmitting Allied positions to U-boats from the Mormugao harbour in Portugal's neutral territory of Goa on 9 March 1943. During World War II, German submarines were sinking thousands of tons of British merchant shipping. British intelligence, based in India, believe information is being passed to the U-Boats by a radio transmitter hidden on board one of three German ships interned in Portuguese Goa. Since Portugal is not involved in the war, the ships are in neutral territory and can not be attacked by conventional forces. British intelligence approach a territorial unit of ageing British ex-patriates to carry out the mission on their behalf. The film notes in its closing credits that during the first 11 days of March 1943, the U-boats sank 12 Allied ships in the Indian Ocean. But, after the Light Horse raid on Goa, however, only one ship was lost in the remainder of the month.

Starring ...

Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Barbara Kellerman, Patrick Macnee, Kenneth Griffith, Patrick Allen, Wolf Kahler

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Producer: Euan Lloyd

Year Released - 1980

Length - 120 minutes

Music Composer: Roy Budd

Movie Distributed by Paramount Pictures