Sailor of the King (1953)
The greatest story of the sea by today's greatest storyteller !
83 min
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.
- Release date
- June 11, 1953
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
- Music
- Clifton Parker
Cast
- Jeffrey Hunter as Signalman Andrew 'Canada' Brown
- Michael Rennie as Lt. Richard Saville
- Wendy Hiller as Lucinda Bentley
- Bernard Lee as Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
- Peter van Eyck as Kapitan von Falk
- Victor Maddern as Signalman Willy 'Misery' Earnshaw
- John Horsley as Cmdr. John Willis
- Patrick Barr as Capt. Tom Ashley, HMS 'Amesbury'
- Robin Bailey as Cdr. John Stafford - HMS 'Stratford'
- Officers and Men of H.M.S. Manxman
Crew
- Roy Boulting · Director
- C.S. Forester · Writer
- Valentine Davies · Writer
- Frank McCarthy · Producer
- Clifton Parker · Composer
- Gilbert Taylor · Cinematographer
- Alan Osbiston · Editor