The score begins with First Crossing, where pulsing low-pitched electronics create a particularly eerie tone to start things off. It’s one of scarcely few films to come out during the current world events, and is scored by Blake Neely – a composer best known for his rather excellent work on various CW superhero shows including Arrow and The Flash. Navy commander in charge of protecting a convoy of ships from enemy submarines during World War II. Greyhound is a war movie directed by Aaron Schneider and starring Tom Hanks as a U.S. Nothin’ wrong with that.Blake Neely’s Greyhound score features a genuinely brilliant main theme and excellently-crafted action segments, while also rather superbly capturing the tension and sorrow of the film and events it represents. It truly is a throwback to old Hollywood storytelling gussied up with the latest in SFX. 91 minutes of that is just about the right amount of time to tell the story and not overstay its welcome. It’s about torpedoes and depth charges, cannons and guns, and explosions and sinkings. Hanks has the gravitas and quiet authority to pull off the role and there’s good support from Stephen Graham as Krause’s Executive Officer but this film ain’t about the acting. It’s a very different story on the deck of a destroyer. Films set in a submarine always feature the need for “quiet”. There’s a veneer to those scenes that give them a level of phoniness that just constantly screams “THIS IS FAKE!” What makes the film is its editing and sound design. Look, I know the old Hollywood films used models and replicas to stand in for ships and subs, but they somehow feel more real than the CGI effects that probably comprise 75% of this film. Running a scant 91 minutes, Greyhound is all noise and action with the occasional dip into the clichéd – SPOILER ALERT – You just know the mess attendant who keeps trying to get the Captain to eat is gonna buy it in the end. Elisabeth Shue has little more than a cameo as the gal he leaves behind, or who leaves him behind as the story has it.
There’s little in the way of character development, though Krause’s faith pops into play every now and then. Most of the dialogue consists of Krause barking orders and the crew responding. Forester, best known for the Horatio Hornblower series. The screenplay, by Hanks himself, is based on the novel The Good Shepherd by C. The most dangerous time for the convoy is the 72 hours it will be out of range of air cover and, sure enough, when they cross into that “Black Pit”, a pack of Nazi submarines lies in wait. Hanks plays Captain Krause, an inexperienced naval commander on his first escort mission. destroyer whose name, I don’t think, is ever revealed (“Greyhound” is slang for “destroyer”.) It takes place almost completely on the bridge and deck of the ship. Greyhound focuses on the commander and crew of a U.S. Most films to date have focused on the Captain and crews of the submarines as the try to avoid detection by other subs or surface ships. (No, I didn’t see 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea till years later.) After that, anything underwater hooked me, from Run Silent, Run Deep to The Bedford Incident to Operation Petticoat and, of course, The Hunt for Red October. One of my earliest movie memories is of seeing 1969’s Captain Nemo and the Underwater City at the American Theatre in Pittston, Pennsylvania.
I’ve always been a sucker for “submarine” movies.
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