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This article is about the 1953 historical adventure film. For the 1937 film, see Sea Devils (1937 film). For other uses, see Sea devil (disambiguation).

Sea Devils
Original cinema poster
Directed byRaoul Walsh
Screenplay byBorden Chase[4]
Story byBorden Chase[4]
Produced byDavid E. Rose[4]
StarringRock Hudson
Yvonne De Carlo
Maxwell Reed[4]
CinematographyWilkie Cooper[4]
Edited byJohn Seabourne Sr.[4]
Music byRichard Addinsell[2]
Production
company
Coronado Productions[5]
Distributed byRKO Pictures[2]
Release dates
  • April 25, 1953 (1953-04-25) (UK)[1]
  • May 23, 1953 (1953-05-23) (US)[2]
Running time
91 minutes[3]
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States[3]
LanguageEnglish

Sea Devils (1953) is a British–American historical adventure film, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, and Maxwell Reed. The story is based on Victor Hugo's novel Toilers of the Sea which was the working title of the film.[6] The scenes at sea were shot around the Channel Islands, and much of the rest of the film was shot on location in those islands as well.[2]

Plot

The year is 1800, and Britain and France have been at war since 1798, in what later was to be known as the War of the Second Coalition. Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman, Drouchette, to the French coast on his ship the Sea Devil. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from a French prison. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns that Drouchette is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of Great Britain. In reality, however, Drouchette is a British agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt learns this, he returns to France to rescue her, just as her true purpose has been discovered by the French.

Cast

References

  1. ^ The Times, April 25, 1953, page 2: First advertisement for Sea Devils, showing at Empire, Leicester Square - Retrieved from The Times Digital Archive June 7, 2014
  2. ^ a b c d e "Sea Devils: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Sea Devils: Technical Details". theiapolis.com. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Sea Devils, Credits". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  5. ^ "Sea Devils, Overview". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved June 6, 2014. {{cite web}}: |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)
  6. ^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/89316/Sea-Devils/notes.html


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