True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-martial.
Acting
Stacy Keach carries the weight of a man destroyed by his own Navy.
Practical Effects
Grimy, cramped submarine interiors that feel genuinely claustrophobic.
Writing
The courtroom scenes bite harder than the sharks.
Director
Robert Iscove
Stacy Keach
Capt. Charles Butler McVay
Richard Thomas
Lieutenant Steven Scott
Steve Landesberg
Lipscombe
Don Harvey
Kinderman
Robert Cicchini
D'Angelo
David Caruso
Wilkes
Bob Gunton
Chaplain
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Hashimoto
Jeffrey Nordling
Tasker
Tim Guinee
Dobson
Neil Giuntoli
Goldstein
Gordon Clapp
Elias
Joseph Carberry
Spilner
Dale Dye
Major Green
Carrie Snodgress
Louise McVay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real USS Indianapolis delivered the atomic bomb components to Tinian Island days before sinking—its secret mission meant no one reported it missing.
Quint's Indianapolis monologue in Jaws (1975) immortalized this disaster; this TV movie was partly greenlit to capitalize on renewed public interest.
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