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SAILOR OF THE KING, screen play by Valentine Davies, based on the novel, "Brown on Resolution," by C. S. Forester; directed by Roy Boulting; produced by Frank McCarthy for Twentieth Century-Fox.
Sailor of the King. US release poster with overseas market name, Sailor of the King. Single-Handed is a 1953 British war film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie and Wendy Hiller. It is based on the 1929 novel Brown on Resolution by C. S. Forester. Set largely in the Pacific, Hunter stars as a Canadian sailor ...
According to the New York Times review, both endings were shown at the Trans-Lux Theatre in New York City, where cards were passed out at the conclusion of the screening to solicit the viewers' preferences. A September 1953 Variety article reported that for "circuit bookings" in New York, the dual endings would be dropped. Although the article ...
- Roy Boulting, Bluey Hill
- Jeffrey Hunter
Sailor of the King: Directed by Roy Boulting. With Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee. In 1940, Canadian sailor Andrew Brown is prisoner on a battle damaged German raider and he plans to delay the raider's at-sea repairs until a British naval task-force can destroy it.
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- Action, Drama, Romance
- Roy Boulting
- 1953-06-11
Jeffrey Hunter, young, tan, and fit, is the sailor whose cruiser has just been sunk in the Pacific by the German cruiser Essen. He and a shipmate (Bernard Miles) are rescued by Captain Peter Van Eyck of the Eseen. Wounded and shaken, Hunter and Miles are taken to sick bay where a German doctor must amputate Miles' leg.
Still journeying on through British war films. This one returns to the naval theme but with a twist. During the First World War , Lieutenant Richard Saville (Michael Rennie), a young Royal Navy officer on five days' leave, and Miss Lucinda Bentley (Wendy Hiller), a merchant's daughter from Portsmouth, get talking on the train up to London ...
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C. S. Forester. Novel. Valentine Davies. Writer. A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress ...
