The Sea Wolves (1980)

Actors: Patrick Macnee (actor), Trevor Howard (actor), Bernard Archard (actor), Wolf Kahler (actor), Donald Houston (actor), Allan Cuthbertson (actor), Glyn Houston (actor), Patrick Allen (actor), Martin Benson (actor), Patrick Holt (actor), Mohan Agashe (actor), Kenneth Griffith (actor), Percy Herbert (actor), Robert Hoffmann (actor), Michael Medwin (actor),

Plot: In March 1943, in the World War II, the Germans use the neutral harbor of the Portuguese colony of Mormugoa to transmit information to a U-Boat about the allied ships to sink them in international waters. In Calcutta, the British Intelligence assigns Colonel Lewis Pugh and Captain Gavin Stewart to spy in Goa and they discover that there are three German vessels anchored in the area and the famous spy Trompeta is based in Goa. They kidnap Trompeta to interrogate him but Lewis accidentally kills the spy after fighting with him in the runaway car. Meanwhile Gavin has one night stand with the gorgeous and elegant Mrs. Cromwell, who is the partner of Trompeta. They fail in their mission, but Lewis and Gavin convince their chief to use the veterans from Calcutta Light Horse led by the retired Colonel W.H. Grice to travel to Goa on board of the old ship Phoebe, pretending to be drunken businessmen on holiday. They prepare to destroy the Ehrenfels and the two other Nazi radio ships and get the German secret codes under the command of Lewis. Meanwhile Gavin on shore has a love affair Mrs. Cromwell and prepares the diversion to facilitate the mission of Lewis and his men.

Keywords: 1940s, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, british-colonial, british-intelligence, cargo-ship, germany, independent-film, india, middle-age
Genres: Action, History, War,
Taglines: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse

Quotes:

Jack Cartwright: [as Grice drives full speed toward the club] If we're going for a drink, I want to be alive to enjoy it!

Secretary: [finding Melborne doing pushups in his office] Mr. Melborne, what are you doing down there?::Melborne: Having a private heart attack!

Col. Lewis Pugh: I want everyone here to smell like a distillery.

[Stewart has just broken Gupta's neck]::Mrs. Cromwell: You've killed him!::Capt. Gavin Stewart: Yes, he was going to kill me. And you. Things like that tend to make me impulsive.

Col. W.H. 'Bill' Grice: Will you take a look at the engine in this thing?::Col. Lewis Pugh: No, but I have a general idea.::Col. W.H. 'Bill' Grice: It belongs in a museum.::Col. Lewis Pugh: So do some of us. Well, cheer up.