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Embark on an epic maritime adventure with 'Sailor of the King' (1953), a captivating Royal Navy film that navigates the high seas of courage, duty, and unwav...
- 83 min
- 4.9K
- Classic British War Movies
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
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 t...
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 ...
- Roy Boulting
- 20th 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 ...
Feb 19, 2022 · This is a super war movie that is essentially a showcase for a handsome Jeffrey Hunter as he single-handedly tries to thwart the ambitions of a powerful Nazi warship in the South Atlantic Ocean. It starts off in a sort of "Brief Encounter" style with Michael Rennie ("Lt. Saville") and Wendy Hiller ("Lucy") meeting on a train and ending up having the shortest of assignations. Skip forwards many ...
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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 ...
