Sailor of the King

Name: Sailor of the King
Director: Roy Boulting
Released: 1953
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee, Peter van Eyck

1953 · 83 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 739 VOTES · DIR. Roy Boulting

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 873 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:25 [Man's Voice, Reading]

00:04:35 One could take that as quite a compliment.

00:07:03 - And you? - Me?

00:09:51 London train? Bless me. London train left five minutes ago.

00:12:28 Your change, sir.

00:14:43 Because I love you.

00:18:31 I don't think there's any doubt of it.

00:20:38 and Jerry has to turn up like a bad penny.

00:22:30 and running bits of colored bunting up and down to the yardarm.

00:24:43 "and confiding in Providence, I'll brave every danger."

00:27:34 the enemy can't say he thought we'd struck.

00:30:22 - Phone the bridge at once. Fire by after magazine. - Aye, aye, sir.

00:34:25 Essen...

00:37:22 I said, "Your ship?"

00:40:23 [German]

00:43:09 But I would like to see these bleeders blown out of the water. I would like to see that.

00:45:17 - Yeoman. Take a signal to Cambridge. - Sir?

00:47:44 The engines have almost stopped.

00:52:08 [Crewman: German]

00:54:46 you're gonna be taking a terrible chance.

01:03:06 [Antiaircraft Gun Firing]

01:10:01 [German]

01:19:40 - Korvettenkapitän Hesse. - Very good. Stand over there.

01:22:32 ##[Ends]

Cast & Characters

Jeffrey Hunter Signalman Andrew 'Canada' Brown Michael Rennie Lt. Richard Saville Wendy Hiller Lucinda Bentley Bernard Lee Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley Peter van Eyck Kapitan von Falk Victor Maddern Signalman Willy 'Misery' Earnshaw John Horsley Cmdr. John Willis Patrick Barr Capt. Tom Ashley, HMS 'Amesbury' Robin Bailey Cdr. John Stafford - HMS 'Stratford' Officers and Men of H.M.S. Manxman

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed873

Dialogue density10.5 lines / min

First line00:01:25

Final line01:22:32

Production Record

DirectorRoy Boulting

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes739