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Sailor of the King is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Boulting released in USA on 11 june 1953 with Jeffrey Hunter
Sailor of the King (1953)
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Add to a movie listSingle-Handed is a 1953 war film based on the novel Brown on Resolution by C. S. Forester and (despite being largely set in the Pacific) filmed in the Mediterranean Sea. Jeffrey 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.
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During the First World War, Lieutenant Richard Saville, a young British naval officer on five days leave, and Miss Lucinda Bentley, a merchant's daughter from Portsmouth, get talking on the train up to London. Halfway along their journey, they miss their rail connection and spend a romantic holiday in the countryside of southern England. When Saville proposes to her, she accepts, but on the day they are due to go back to Portsmouth, she changes her mind, asking Saville to realise that neither he nor she could bear being parted for the long periods he would be at sea. They part, seemingly forever.Actors
Jeffrey Hunter
(Signalman Andrew 'Canada' Brown)
Michael Rennie
(Lt. Richard Saville)
Peter van Eyck
(Kapitan Ludwig von Falk)
Wendy Hiller
(Lucinda Bentley)
Bernard Lee
(Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley)
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