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 create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer.
After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother.
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States.
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The novel THE CRUEL SEA by Nicholas Monserrat was an unflinching portrayal of life at sea during WWII on a boat tasked with protecting convoys and seeking ...
THE CRUEL SEA TRAILER 1953
NEVER FORGET FILM SERIES.
Greatest Ever War Films No. 24: The Cruel Sea (1953)
Eamonn Holmes Simon Heffer and Virginia McKenna talk about the black-and-white British war film The Cruel Sea (1953).
The Cruel Sea - Trailer
Commander Ericson is made captain of the Corvette Compass Rose a small escort vessel used to guide and protect convoys travelling through the Atlantic.
The Cruel Sea - Trailer
Commander Ericson is made captain of the Corvette Compass Rose a small escort vessel used to guide and protect convoys travelling through the Atlantic.
Barry Norman introduces The Cruel Sea
21st December 1988 as part of the Movie Classics series.
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The new steward of Siltala ends up falling in love with the beautiful widow of the house. Their romance is endangered by misunderstandings and the fact that the estate of Siltala is swimming in debt.
"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the things he does and has done to him, all deriving from the war-time theft of $100,000,000 in gold which lies somewhere in the adjacent desert.
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life.
