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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 ...
Although financed by Fox, it was essentially a British film, with British talent — Hunter was cast as a Canadian to explain his accent (his casting led to some difficulties with British film unions). [8] Sailor of the King was a minor success, as was a Western Hunter made with Mitzi Gaynor, Three Young Texans (1954).
1953: Constable Chapman: Single-Handed: 1953: Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley: US title C.S. Forester's Sailor of the King [61] Beat the Devil: 1953: Inspector Jack Clayton: The Rainbow Jacket: 1954: Racketeer Uncredited Father Brown: 1954: Inspector Valentine: US title The Detective [62] Seagulls Over Sorrento: 1954: Seaman 'Lofty' Turner: US ...
Sailor of the King: Roy Boulting: Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller: War: The Saint's Return: Seymour Friedman: Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler: Thriller: Sea Devils: Raoul Walsh: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed: Adventure: Co-production with the United States Small Town Story: Montgomery Tully: Donald Houston ...
The novel was also later adapted as Sailor of the King (also titled Single-Handed in the US, and sometimes – though rarely – Brown on Resolution), in 1953. The 1935 version retains the novel's original World War I setting, but in the 1953 remake, the setting is realistically updated to the Second World War, as the Germans resumed commerce ...
The story is based on the life of a sailor named David O'Keefe [3] who in 1871 was shipwrecked on Yap in the Caroline Islands, where he found the natives highly prized Rai stones quarried at great effort and danger on the island of Palau. He organized the natives to produce the large stone disks by employing modern methods and then used them to ...
From 1950 to the early 1990s, Maddern appeared in films and TV series, often portraying military types, usually cast as sergeants or corporals, as well as privates, seaman or airmen, played either straight or comically, [5] one exception to this rule was when he portrayed a deformed hunchback, named Carl, in the horror film Blood of the Vampire ...
Manning Whiley as Bentley; Barbara Everest as Ursula; Michael Drake as Grierson; Hay Petrie as Old Dan; Thorley Walters as Huey Frazer; David Keir as Quiney; Howard Douglas as The landlord ...