![]() Charles Frend directs it well within the style of the early 1950's. Eric Ambler did his usual excellent job in writing this script, and if he left out some of the better bits, he also got the best bits in. So the adaptation of a novel by a screenwriter becomes a process of selection. There are too many `moments in time' to get them all in. It is difficult to translate any full-length novel to the screen. Were it horrid, I should still love it, I suppose. ![]() ![]() (where I ironically ended up in the submarine service.) It formed an invaluable step in teaching me what `duty' meant, and `honor.' It is therefore a bit more difficult for me to judge this motion picture than most. ![]() (That is supposing I already had my life vest on.) This book has affected my life deeply since I first came across it as a teenager. If my ship were going down, and I had that one last moment to grab a treasured something, my copy of the book, THE CRUEL SEA by Nicholas Monsarrat might well be what I choose. ![]()
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