Movie · 1953
Sailor of the King
“The greatest story of the sea by today's greatest storyteller !”
Released 11 June 1953 83 min Action / Drama / War More from 1953 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Bernard Lee
as Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
Patrick Barr
as Captain Tom Ashley, HMS Amesbury
Michael Rennie
as Lt. Richard Saville
Wendy Hiller
as Lucinda Bentley
Robin Bailey
as Lieutenant John Stafford, HMS Stratford
John Horsley
as Commander John Willis
Victor Maddern
as Signalman Willy Earnshaw
Jeffrey Hunter
as Signalman Andrew 'Canada' Brown
James Drake
as Navigator (uncredited)
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The numbers
19years between the oldest and youngest billed
45Bernard Lee — oldest on the call sheet
26Jeffrey Hunter — youngest billed
36average age of the credited cast