Both Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo feel miscast in this adaptation of the movie adaptation of Forster's novel hero. The big gag is he coughs when nervous but he's brave. Like most sea movies e.g. The Sea Hawk it starts at sea, then goes back to land then finishes at sea where the hero is captured by the enemy then escapes. Actually just writing that out it's awfully like The Sea Hawk. (This was meant to be a vehicle for Errol Flynn too but by this stage he was too old and too much trouble.)
The ending is a bit yuck when Peck finds out Mayo has been widowed so they can be together - hooray. He's hardly been dead five minutes!
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