Disney movie, dramatization of a real Coast Guard rescue in 1952.

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2016)

My wife and I saw this at home on DVD from our public library. The two "extras" are short but interesting.
It was the winter of 1951/1952 in Massachusetts. A storm was brewing and the Coast Guard station gets a radio transmission that a repaired, welded oil tanker in high seas has broken apart in the rough seas. It is now nighttime, and two Coast Guard rescue crews are dispatched. One of them had to turn back, but one of them continued. This is the story of the ones who continued and against great odds, without compass, found the half of ship with 32 aboard. As the captain later said "It was probably just luck that we found you."
Chris Pine is excellent as the captain of the rescue boat, Bernie Webber. As well as Casey Affleck who was playing Ray Sybert, the key leader who managed to figure out a way to get the remaining half ship to a shallow area to ground it, preventing it from sinking until after the rescue.
Being at night much of the picture is often indistinct but I suppose that couldn't be helped. Overall a fine movie, and the sound is filled with deep bass at appropriate times, lending to the realism.
The character I most enjoyed however is British actress Holliday Grainger as Miriam. I had seen her as Bonnie in a "Bonnie and Clyde" miniseries a couple of years ago, she is very pretty and also a good actress. Here she is the telephone operator who becomes Webber's fiancé and she is among the ones monitoring the events of the evening from the Coast Guard station.
The characters here are real people, the ending credits has some photos from the 1952 incident and its aftermath.