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Sailor of the King

(1953)

June 11, 1953 1h 23m
67%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Roy Boulting

Director

Top Billed Cast

JH

Jeffrey Hunter

Signalman Andrew 'Canada' Brown

MR

Michael Rennie

Lt. Richard Saville

WH

Wendy Hiller

Lucinda Bentley

BL

Bernard Lee

Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley

VM

Victor Maddern

Signalman Willy Earnshaw

JH

John Horsley

Commander John Willis

PB

Patrick Barr

Captain Tom Ashley, HMS Amesbury

RB

Robin Bailey

Lieutenant John Stafford, HMS Stratford

JD

James Drake

Navigator (uncredited)