The Silent Enemy. Gibraltar 1958

The Silent Enemy is a 1958 action film directed by William Fairchild. It stars Laurence Harvey as Lionel “Buster“ Crabb and describes his exploits during World War II. Based on Marshall Pugh’s book Commander Crabb, it was made following the publicity created by Crabb’s mysterious disappearance and likely death during a Cold War incident a year earlier. Plot The story begins with a dramatisation of the Italian manned torpedo raid on Alexandria (1941) in which two British battleships were sunk. The British a