The Eternal Sea (1955)

★ 6.4 1h 43m IMDb
Drama War

Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.

The Eternal Sea

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Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden as Rear-Adm. John Madison Hoskins Died 1986 · Upper Montclair, New Jersey, USA Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. He dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and hired on as mate on a schooner....
Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith as Sue Hoskins Died 1993 · Penticton, Canada Margaret Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born American actress and pin-up girl. She appeared in several major Hollywood movies in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadw...
Ben Cooper
Ben Cooper as Seaman P.J. 'Zuggy' Zugbaum Died 2020 · Hartford, Connecticut, USA Ben Cooper was an American screen, radio, and television actor. He began his career on Broadway as a child stage actor. In 2005 Cooper won a Golden Boot Award for his work in Westerns..
Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple Died 1991 · Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA Dean Jagger was an American film, stage, and television actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Other notable films in which Jagger appear...
Virginia Grey
Virginia Grey as Dorothy Buracker Died 2004 · Edendale, California, USA Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004) was an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was Gloria Swanson. Gr...
Hayden Rorke
Hayden Rorke as Capt. William Buracker Died 1987 · Brooklyn, New York, USA Hayden Rorke (October 23, 1910 – August 19, 1987) was an American actor best known for playing Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie. Rorke was born in New York City as the son of screen and stage actres...
Director John H. Auer
Cast Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, Ben Cooper, Dean Jagger, Virginia Grey, Hayden Rorke, Douglas Kennedy, Louis Jean Heydt, Richard Crane, Morris Ankrum

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CinemaSerf 6/10 Nov 14, 2022
This is another film that is really let down by it's title. One that suggests more of a swashbuckler - or a romance, at any rate - than a biopic of American Admiral Hoskins (Sterling Hayden) who was a pioneer of the use of jet aircraft from aircraft carriers. As it is, it's an OK depiction of the struggles of the man against the elements, technology, human frailty and government to get his ideas implemented. Hayden is a charm-free actor here, his dedication to his task is laudable, but cheerless and any semblance of romance with wife Sue (a rather prim Alexis Smith) left me cold. It does have oodles of wonderful original aerial photography to augment it, though - and that helps. Sadly, though, this is all as flat as the deck on the "USS Princeton".

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