Greyhound 2020

 

Adapted from the 1955 novel entitled "The Good Shepherd" by C. S. Forester, Greyhound is set in 1942, when the United States was embroiled in World War II. "Greyhound" is the nickname for the USS Keeling, an American warship led by Captain Ernest Krause (Tom Hanks).

The Greyhound commanded the "Convoy HX-25", a large Allied convoy containing 37 troop and supplies ships and 4 light warships consisting of several British warships. The destination was Liverpool, England and to reach Liverpool, the convoy had to cross the vast Atlantic Ocean.

In this film, Tom Hanks will portray the figure of a US Navy Commander named Ernest Krause in his first war-time assignment by leading a multi-national escort group in protecting a convoy of 37 allied merchant ships, overshadowed by the German U-boat submarine. .

Using its infamous and deadly "wolfpack" formation that roamed many in early 1942 during the Battle of the Atlantic, it was only a few months later that the US officially entered the scene of World War II.