Sons of the Sea is a 1939 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Leslie Banks, Kay Walsh, Mackenzie Ward and Cecil Parker.[1]
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England, 1939. The head of Dartmouth Naval College is murdered. His successor, Captain Hyde, believes that he was in fact the intended target of the assassination. He soon begins to realise that both British and foreign intelligence agents are at work. He enlists the help of his son, a reluctant sea cadet, to smoke them out.
The film was made shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, something explored in the themes of the film. Unusually for the time, it was made in colour, the Dufaycolor process - the only full feature film ever made in this.
It has recently been restored and was shown in 2005 on BBC television. The colour looked a bit thin compared with Technicolor. The most interesting feature was the extensive scenes of the cadets at Dartmouth parading,- clearly genuine and an interesting insight into naval officer training at that time. This was still the era when Dartmouth trained cadets from ages 14 to 18. Sadly both the script and direction are weak.
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