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The Cruel Sea 121 minutes, UK (1953), PG
(3.5)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Our rating:
Average user rating (5 / 89 votes)

Maritime tension on the North Atlantic convoys. A potential exciting story is torpedoed by a boring script and bland direction

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The Cruel Sea: Based on Nicholas Monsarrat's best selling novel, which was in turn derived from his experiences on the North Sea convoys, The Cruel Sea is set in the middle of ‘the battle of the Atlantic', as the U-boats attempted to destroy British shipping lanes and starve the country into surrender...
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