Single-Handed
Single-Handed 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. Set largely in the Pacific, 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 the United States as Sailor of the King.
Plot
During the First World War, Lieutenant Richard Saville, a young Royal Navy officer on five days' leave, and Miss Lucinda Bentley, a merchant's daughter from Portsmouth, get talking on the train up to London. Halfway through their journey, they miss their rail connection and spend a romantic holiday in the countryside of southern England. When Saville proposes, she accepts, but on the day they are due to go back to Portsmouth, she changes her mind, asking Saville to realise that neither he nor she could bear being parted for the long periods he would be at sea. They part, seemingly forever.
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author | C. S. Forester |
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contentLocation | England |
director | Roy Boulting |
editor | Alan Osbiston |
events | World War II |
keywords | aa anti aircraft big guns commerce raiding cruiser dead body filmfour first world war god save the queen kill land london montreal national anthem naval artillery navy officer north atlantic pick up portsmouth raider romantic holiday royal navy second world war squadron talk the national victoria cross world war world war i wound |
musicBy | Clifton Parker |
producer | Frank McCarthy |
productionCompany | 20th Century Fox |
publisher | 20th Century Fox |
recordedAt | Malta |
theme | war |