Sailor of the King

1953

Action / Drama / Romance / War

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 54% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 911 911

world war ii black and white german cruiser

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Roy Boulting Photo
Roy Boulting

Top cast

Sam Kydd Photo
Sam Kydd as Naval Rating
Patrick Barr Photo
Patrick Barr as Capt. Tom Ashley, HMS 'Amesbury'
John Horsley Photo
John Horsley as Cmdr. John Willis
James Copeland Photo
James Copeland as Cmdr. Laughton
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
758.07 MB
970*720
English 2.0
Approved
23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 1
1.37 GB
1454*1080
English 2.0
Approved
23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Russ G 5 / 10

Klaatu returns from somewhere in the galaxy and

Klaatu returns from somewhere in the galaxy and goes to sea for the Royal Navy. The scriptwriters tacked on a 17 minute romance angle set in the first war that serves no purpose to the rest of the film but it padded out the running time. I finally recognized the young buck Jeffrey Hunter playing Signalman Brown as the guy from a Star Trek episode a decade and a half later. Some decent action scenes using practical effects and models - not at all badly done for the time. Of course the story is utter balderdash - Royal Navy and German Navy engaged in the Pacific in the early war years and a final bit about a Royal Navy convoy escort being able to "put in at Montreal" hundreds of miles up the St. Lawrence River in wartime but let that go. Overall a decent action yarn that's probably largely forgotten. I'm giving it two and a half stars for effort which for me is a generous rating. Edit: the version I got on Y//T didn't have the "alternate" ending so the connection of Hunter's character to his rescuer and new superior, linking the initial five day affair of decades earlier, wasn't apparent, presuming that was made clear in Ending Two, but maybe that was an Easter Egg I was supposed to figure out via that stuff about his mother bringing him up on all things Royal Navy. I'm not surprised if they shot two endings and chose one in the editing room.
Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

Sailor of the King (1953) -- [7.0]

Sailor of the King (1953) -- [7.0] -- SPOILER REVIEW: This nifty WWII naval actioner is slow to start, but after the midpoint it offers an engaging blend of drama and suspense. Jeffrey Hunter (The Searchers) plays Andrew Brown, a signalman in the British navy who survives the sinking of his ship and escapes German capture. While the Germans carry out repairs to their vessel in an island harbor, Brown becomes a sniper. He takes refuge in the rocky cliffside and starts picking off German soldiers, hoping to stall their progress long enough for British reinforcements to arrive. Helping to make this more than your average matinee war movie is a potent dramatic twist -- that Brown is the illegitimate son of the naval commander coming to his rescue. Michael Rennie (The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Wendy Hiller (A Man for All Seasons) play Brown's parents. The script, based on a novel by C.S. Forester (The African Queen), lets the audience in on the secret, but neither father nor son ever learn their relation to one another during the course of the film. This admirable restraint in storytelling allows for a compelling teaser of a finale.
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

Slightly above-average war drama which has two alternate

Slightly above-average war drama which has two alternate ending, oddly enough.
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