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- BFI identifier45171
- Date1953 (Copyright)
1953-05-28 (Release) - Production countryUSA, United Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisStory of a seaman's heroic sacrifice to encompass sinking of German raider of last war. (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe following statement appears before the opening credits: 'Dedicated to The Spirit of Her Majesty's Royal Navy and in particular to those officers and men of the British Mediterranean Fleet, whose willing help made this film possible' The following quotation appears after the opening credits: 'I will be a hero - and confiding in Providence, I will brave every danger Horatio Nelson, 1774' Two endings for the film were shot - the British ending, in which the hero was killed and his proud mother collected a medal awarded to him by the King - and an American one, in which the hero survived, talked lovingly of his mother, and collected his own medal.
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- CreditsDirected by: Roy Boulting
©: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Produced and Released by: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
view all - CastJeffrey Hunter (Leading Signalman Andrew Brown)
Michael Rennie (Captain Richard Saville)
Wendy Hiller (Lucinda Bentley)
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Title
Single-handed (Original)
Brown on Resolution (Alternative)
Sailor of the Sea (Alternative)
Sailor of the King (Alternative)
Able Seaman Brown (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/AD28-D2D2-3472-42BA-D4B4-7Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-904333
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-ak8
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-ak7
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-ak6
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-4eh
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Work - 45171 - 1953 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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