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Tom Hanks’ latest movie is a World War II feature set during the Battle of the Atlantic. While it was originally scheduled to appear in theaters on Father’s Day, due to the COVID-10 pandemic, Apple won a bidding war with other streamers for the rights to bring the production to smaller screens. Greyhound begins streaming on Friday, July 10, 2020, exclusively on Apple TV+.
1. What is it about?
Greyhound centers around a US Navy officer who is in command of a convoy of 37 transport ships and their destroyer escorts as they cross the North Atlantic carrying thousands of troops and supplies from the United States to Great Britain. The movie focuses on five days when the convoy was traversing an area known as the “Black Pit” where the ships would be out of range of friendly air cover. This was the hunting grounds for German submarines known as U-boats. The destroyers are challenged with locating and sinking the U-boats while preventing the enemy from sinking the transport ships as well as the destroyers themselves.
2. Who provides the star power in the movie?
Tom Hanks headlines the movie as United States Navy Commander Ernest Krause, the captain of the destroyer USS Keelin who is also in charge of protecting the convoy. The call-sign…
