\nBased on a 1955 novel, the film follows a Navy captain who must shepherd men and ships across the perilous Atlantic Ocean to join the war.
\nWhen the United States entered World War II in 1941, a huge challenge for its military was getting to where the fighting was, safely. Troops and equipment had to be moved over the water, even when protection from airborne forces was sporadic. In the Atlantic, this left Allied convoys vulnerable, for harrowingly long periods, to attack by the advanced German submarines known as U-boats.
\n\u201cGreyhound,\u201d directed by Aaron Schneider and starring Tom Hanks, who also wrote its screenplay, keeps watch on the Navy Commander Ernest Krause and his men and ships during such a period. And yet \u201cGreyhound\u201d is a surprisingly ordinary picture, given the star\u2019s prior track record in war movies and television shows.
\nThe movie is adapted from \u201cThe Good Shepherd,\u201d a 1955 novel by C.S. Forester, a popular writer of naval adventures in the 20th century (Captain Horatio Hornblower was his invention). Forester\u2019s novel is an account of not just the action but of Krause\u2019s shifting interior states as tension and casualties mount.\n<\/div>\n
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