The Cruel Sea (1953)
Directed by Charles
Frend this film based on the novel of the same name stars Jack
Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott and Stanley Baker. A British
Merchant Navy officer is drafted into the Royal Navy at the start of
the Second World War to captain a convoy escort ship.
While this is not an
action packed affair the story of this film does a good job of
showing what life was like for the crew of convoy escorts in the war.
The plot does a good job of highlighting the affects of war on the
captain of the ship and is more subtle than you would expect from a
time with limited understanding of Post Traumatic Stress disorder.
Using a combination of archive footage and model work the action
sequences just about hold together but are not overly impressive.
3/5
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