Sailor of the King (1953)

1h 23m
Running Time

June 11, 1953
Release Date

Sailor of the King (1953)

1h 23m
Running Time

June 11, 1953
Release Date

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Network & Production Companies
20th Century Fox

Plot.

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 while a lethal hunt for him goes on.

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Release Date
June 11, 1953

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 23m

Content Rating
NR

Filming Locations
Malta

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This Movie Is About.

world war ii
german cruiser

Wiki.

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 serving on a British warship who battles single-handedly to delay a German World War II warship long enough for the Royal Navy to bring it to battle. The film was released in the United States as Sailor of the King.

It was filmed at Shepperton Studios near London and on location in the Mediterranean around Malta. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky An earlier 1935 film Forever England was based on the same novel and starred John Mills under Walter Forde's direction.

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