The Sea Chase (1955)

Directed by

John Farrow

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German freighter captain tries to sail his ship from Australia back to Germany at the start of World War Two. He is chased across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans by Australian and British naval forces.

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What happens

The Sea Chase is a 1955 World War II drama film starring John Wayne and Lana Turner, and featuring David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, and Tab Hunter. It was directed by John Farrow from a screenplay by James Warner Bellah and John Twist based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Geer. The plot is a nautical cat and mouse adventure, with Wayne determined to get his freighter home to Germany during the opening months of World War II, chased relentlessly across the Pacific then Atlantic oceans by the Australian and then British navies. The film was shot in CinemaScope and WarnerColor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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