Sailor of the King
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US release poster with overseas market name, Sailor of the King. | |
| Directed by | Roy Boulting |
| Screenplay by | Valentine Davies |
| Based on | Brown on Resolution by C. S. Forester |
| Produced by | Frank McCarthy |
| Starring | Jeffrey Hunter Michael Rennie Wendy Hiller |
| Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor |
| Edited by | Alan Osbiston |
| Music by | Clifton Parker |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,220,000 |
Sailor of the King 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 Britain as Single-Handed.
It was filmed at Shepperton Studios near London and on location in the Mediterranean around Malta. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky An earlier 1935 film Forever England was based on the same novel and starred John Mills under Walter Forde's direction.