Single-Handed (1953)

Original title

Sailor of the King

Directed by

Roy Boulting

Genre

war film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Canadian sailor on a British warship tries to delay a German warship during World War II. He acts alone to give the Royal Navy time to fight the enemy.

adventuroustensepatrioticaction-orientedearnestbriskhistorical

What happens

Sailor of the King 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. The film is set largely in the Pacific, and 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 Britain as Single-Handed. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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