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The Cruel Sea

  • 1953
  • Approved
  • 2h 6m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
7,4/10
5,8 k
MA NOTE
Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins in The Cruel Sea (1953)
Home Video Extra (Clip) from Anchor Bay Entertainment
Liretrailer2 min 17 s
1 vidéo
99+ photos
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

  • Director
    • Charles Frend
  • Writers
    • Nicholas Monsarrat
    • Eric Ambler
  • Stars
    • Jack Hawkins
    • Donald Sinden
    • John Stratton
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  • ÉVALUATION IMDb
    7,4/10
    5,8 k
    MA NOTE
    • Director
      • Charles Frend
    • Writers
      • Nicholas Monsarrat
      • Eric Ambler
    • Stars
      • Jack Hawkins
      • Donald Sinden
      • John Stratton
    • 85Commentaires d'utilisateurs
    • 19Commentaires de critiques
  • Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro
    • Nommé pour 1 oscar
      • 4 nominations au total

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    Rôles principaux52

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    Jack Hawkins
    Jack Hawkins
    • Ericson
    Donald Sinden
    Donald Sinden
    • Lockhart
    John Stratton
    John Stratton
    • Ferraby
    Denholm Elliott
    Denholm Elliott
    • Morell
    John Warner
    • Baker
    Stanley Baker
    Stanley Baker
    • Bennett
    Bruce Seton
    Bruce Seton
    • Tallow
    Liam Redmond
    Liam Redmond
    • Watts
    Virginia McKenna
    Virginia McKenna
    • Julie Hallam
    Moira Lister
    Moira Lister
    • Elaine Morell
    June Thorburn
    June Thorburn
    • Doris Ferraby
    Megs Jenkins
    Megs Jenkins
    • Tallow's Sister
    Meredith Edwards
    Meredith Edwards
    • Yeoman Wells
    Glyn Houston
    Glyn Houston
    • Phillips
    Alec McCowen
    Alec McCowen
    • Tonbridge
    Leo Phillips
    • Wainwright
    Dafydd Havard
    Dafydd Havard
    • Signalman Rose
    Fred Griffiths
    • Gracey
    • Director
      • Charles Frend
    • Writers
      • Nicholas Monsarrat
      • Eric Ambler
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    Commentaires des utilisateurs85

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    8DB-55

    Gritty war movie , minus the usual propaganda.

    Fine English war movie of life aboard a convoy escort ship during WWII. It's original B&W format only adds to the overall feel of the movie. Great no-nonsense performances from the cast. The movie is notable in that it is almost free of propaganda and instead concentrates on showing the crews life on board in a realistic way.Jack Hawkins turns in a fine performance.
    H.J.

    Beautiful, thoughtful British film-making from the past.

    If my ship were going down, and I had that one last moment to grab a treasured something, my copy of the book, THE CRUEL SEA by Nicholas Monsarrat might well be what I choose. (That is supposing I already had my life vest on.) This book has affected my life deeply since I first came across it as a teenager. It is why I joined the US Navy. (where I ironically ended up in the submarine service.) It formed an invaluable step in teaching me what `duty' meant, and `honor.' It is therefore a bit more difficult for me to judge this motion picture than most. Were it horrid, I should still love it, I suppose. Fortunately it is not horrid. `The Cruel Sea is in fact first rate.

    It is difficult to translate any full-length novel to the screen. There are too many `moments in time' to get them all in. So the adaptation of a novel by a screenwriter becomes a process of selection. Eric Ambler did his usual excellent job in writing this script, and if he left out some of the better bits, he also got the best bits in. Charles Frend directs it well within the style of the early 1950's. The special effects are above average for the time and not unacceptable by today's standards, although they are not spectacular. The film editing is clean and crisp with little to complain about. The musical score is not intrusive, but not up to the rest of the effort. It would be ten years before the art of Movie Music caught up to the rest, and here the score is no worse any other film of 1953. It is however the acting that gives this movie the push to get it far above the rest.

    Jack Hawkins is marvelous in his understated competence as Captain Ericson, and the actors who play his officers (including a very young and very British Denholm Elliot) all turn in workman-like performances. It is however the overall excellence of the entire cast that is impressive. One of the major strengths of British films from the end of the Second World War through the 1970's was the incredibly fine ensemble casting that provided first-rate acting even in the smallest parts. Walter Fitzgerald in his 30 second role as the air raid warden shows true compassion when he says, `Yes, Mister Tallow, that was your house, wasn't it?'

    All of the vivid, bloody color that made `Platoon' and `Saving Private Ryan' the two best combat films ever made are absent here. This was a different type of warfare, the blood, all of the color washed away by the cruel sea. The Battle of the North Atlantic was a very British battle. A five and a half year long stoic battle of endurance, of perseverance, of honor and duty. This is the side of the Second Word War that most lived, but few have ever been able to put into words. `The Cruel Sea' is much more than just a history lesson though. It is a very good movie, and it is a beautiful example of what British film could be in 1953. I highly recommend it.
    Rob Fox

    Torpedos off Starboard Bow

    Archetypal British WW2 fare which is very clearly a cut above the rest. Jack Hawkins steers HMS Compass Rose, a small escort ship, through the perils of convoy duty and the ever present risk of U-boats.

    Hawkins excels as the exhausted Captain in this no frills account of men battling against a constant and ruthless enemy - the sea. A melancholic soundtrack and the distinct lack of jingoism create a forlorn atmosphere as the ship's company endures periods of grinding boredom interrupted only by the sudden terror of U-boat attacks. In the tensest of scenes, during a rare heady pursuit, the radar gives Hawkins his firmest ever indication of an enemy submarine. "There are men in the water just there" he murmurs, realising that as Captain he is alone in making an agonising decision - whether to drop depth charges and risk killing a group of British survivors floating ahead of him. The attack is pressed home, killing the defenceless men but failing to hit the U-boat, and leads to a moving scene where Hawkins' resolute professionalism crumbles in a brief but heartfelt show of drunken emotion.

    The trips to sea are punctuated by tableaux scenes on shore, where the tribulations of officers and crew are no less fraught with threats and worry. In a country under siege there can be no escape from air-raids or even an adulterous wife. "It's no-ones fault" says Hawkins "It's the war, the whole bloody war." A strong supporting cast, includes 'youngsters' Denholm Elliot, Donald Sinden and Stanley Baker.

    This is a film that succeeds in telling how dangerously close to the edge the British came during the Battle of the Atlantic and of the enormous impact it had on ordinary individuals. The closing scene leaves the audience with a real sense of how, after five long years of war, a nation was left exhausted and emotionally drained.
    trpdean

    Superb unsentimental rendering of North Atlantic Action in W.w.II

    I first read this book when I was 14 (and had my father take it back from me when I had to ask "what's 'urinate' mean, dad?"). Monserrat is a master at the depiction of men at war - from his extraordinary technical knowledge to his ability to convey the fatigue, the cross feelings living in close quarters, the bitterness, the moments of triumph or relief.

    This film does Monserrat justice. This movie is the opposite of the "boys' own adventure" sorts of movies. There are no striking heroics - just the very real feeling of people performing onerous often dangerous duties as well as they're able - which is heroic itself. The movie does not skimp on the danger either - the shocking losses of ships in convoys that the corvette "protects", the extreme difficulty of finding and sinking U-boats, almost gives one the feeling, "what's the point of convoys?" (Imagine all surgeons operating with an average 3% survival rate - well, 3% recovery is better than none - but imagine the wear on the surgeons).

    The film is gritty, and just has the feel of the 1940s in its bones. The sounds, the movement, the look of cities and harbors, the clothes - it's as if one's uncles' tales have all come to life.

    Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden are wonderful - almost always (and necessarily in wartime) stiff upper lip. The movie's moral dramas (bearing upon decisions the captain must make) are wonderfully conceived and executed.

    This is truly a superb movie - a great credit to all who worked on it - a memorial to many. It's a completely different - and superior - genre to such movies as Pearl Harbor. I even prefer it to its natural rival, In Which We Serve - good though the latter is.
    8m0rphy

    A Tribute to Tony Cox

    Tony Cox's review is one of the best I have ever read on Imdb and says it all with heartfelt passion, accurately describing the drama and characters motivations in this realistic film of anti U-boat sea warfare throughout WWII.I won't try to emulate his brilliant narrative but just add a few thoughts of my own.Jack Hawkins is always very watchable in any of his films as an actor and seems to inhabit the part of Ericsson, the skipper of "Compass Rose" and "Saltash Castle".He vividly portrays the professional and emotional sides of his character, especially when he utters "...its the war, the bloody war" with tear stained eyes.

    One has to disabuse your mind of later Donald Sinden parts and his rather stagey voice and look dispassionatly at his early carrer as he portrays the new No.1 with an interest in learning first aid which inevitably comes in useful when tending the many merchant seaman they meet who have become torpedo victims.Can someone please tell me what "snorkers" are when applied to sausages, as I have never heard this expression, despite living in London all my life.Evidently Stanley Baker loves them!!

    This film effectively portrays the whole gamut of wartime emotions from the long Atlantic naval voyage boredom, short moments of high danger and excitement, guilt about not rescuing your own men who need help, sorrow at losing loved ones, training men on new sciences (asdic) and even romance (Viginia McKenna).At the end one feels as though you had actually been on the corvette yourself with the crew.One of the most realistic WWII dramas I have ever seen (and I have all the classics in my library).I rated it 8/10.

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    • Anecdotes
      Jack Hawkins wrote in his 1973 autobiography "Anything for a Quiet Life" regarding this film, "All of us in the film were sure that we were making something quite unusual, and a long way removed from the Errol Flynn-taking-Burma-single-handed syndrome. This was the period of some very indifferent American war movies, whereas 'The Cruel Sea' contained no false heroics. That is why we all felt that we were making a genuine example of the way in which a group of men went to war."
    • Gaffes
      Some depth charges are clearly labelled "INERT FILLED."
    • Citations

      Watts: [repairing the engine] Come to see the fun, sir? It won't be long now.

      Morell: Fine, chief, but the captain's a little worried about the noise. Could you do anything to... tone it down a bit?

      Watts: Pretty well finished now, sir. We're just flabbin' up the nuts. Could you hear the hammerin' up top?

      Morell: Hear it? There were U-boats popping up from miles around complaining about the racket.

    • Connexions
      Featured in Haie und kleine Fische (1957)
    • Bandes originales
      The Chestnut Tree
      or "The Spreading Chestnut Tree" (uncredited)

      Author unknown, perhaps traditional song

      Sung by the sailors in the raft to keep awake

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 3 juillet 1953 (Australia)
    • Pays d’origine
      • United Kingdom
    • Langue
      • English
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Okrutno more
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(Doubled for Liverpool)
    • sociétés de production
      • Ealing Studios
      • Michael Balcon Productions
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    • Durée
      2 heures 6 minutes
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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