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The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British war film based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Monsarrat. The film starred Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister. The movie was made by Ealing Studios seven years after the end of the Second World War, and was directed by Charles ...
The Cruel Sea: Directed by Charles Frend. With Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott. The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
One of the best classic war films, made in britain and a fine memorial for the men and ships of the convoy escort groups in the North Atlantic. Jack Hawkins ...
The Cruel Sea. The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war. The novel, based on the author's experience of serving in corvettes and frigates in the ...
The Cruel Sea. Classic naval thriller from Ealing studios. The story of the Compass Rose, a British warship, and its crew following them from the dire days before Dunkirk, through to the end of World War 2. 796 IMDb 7.4 2 h 6 min 1953. NR.
The Cruel Sea (1953) is based on one of the great bestsellers of its day, the 1951 novel of the same title by Nicholas Monsarrat (1910-1979). Son of a noted Liverpool surgeon and medical school dean, Monsarrat studied at Cambridge and became a moderately successful writer in his youth.
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore ...
