- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1953
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- War
- Director:
- Best Performance:
- None
- Premiss:
- Adventures of a convoy escort ship and its officers.
- Theme:
- Compassion
- Loneliness
- Personal change
- White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Superb war drama presenting the sea itself as the enemy rather more than the Germans. Elliptical, yet each dramatic vignette serves its emotional purpose perfectly: Creating a cinematic gestalt as each part interlocks - like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
The peculiar brilliance of British cinema, at its best, is the way in which emotions are shown, yet not shown. This stiff upper-lip reveals the horrors of war far more credibly than any visual explicitness because it is the way in which people under pressure deal with the stress in order to keep total, war-losing collapse, at bay.
The tension between the emotions the actors portray - and what they give the very clear impression of hiding - makes this movie far more moving than any attempts at Oscar-winning histrionics. And impeccable casting ensures no one strikes a false emotional note in this emotionally-mature film.
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