Film Appearance
Although the action was putatively occurring aboard Missouri, and that ship was shown in some of the footage, Alabama was actually used for most of the battleship scenes in the 1992 action film Under Siege.
The ship was used as a stand in for the USS Iowa in the ABC miniseries War and Remembrance. The number 60 is clearly visible during one of the scenes.
The opening scene of the low-budget, David A. Prior action movie, Rapid Fire (1989), was filmed aboard the Alabama.
Part of the Abbott and Costello movie In the Navy takes place on a fictional USS Alabama battleship. The movie was shot in 1941, but the real Alabama battleship was not commissioned until 1942.
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