In the early 1950s, Britain was still catching its breath from World War II, and audiences weren’t quite ready to turn away from it. When “The Cruel Sea” premiered in 1953, it struck a chord with ...

With many remarkable virtues, the screen version of Nicholas Montsarrat's novel proves that British films can overstate their famous technique of understatement. Depicting five years of war on board a ...

Capt. Ericson For us, the Battle of the Atlantic was becoming a private war. If you were in it, you knew all about it. You knew how to keep watch on filthy nights, and how to go without sleep; and how ...