Sons of the Sea (film)
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| Directed by | Maurice Elvey |
| Produced by | K.C. Alexander |
| Written by |
George Barraud Gerald Elliott (screenplay) (as W.G. Elliott) Maurice Elvey (screenplay) Reginald Long (dialogue) D. William Woolf (scenario) |
| Starring |
Leslie Banks Kay Walsh Mackenzie Ward Cecil Parker |
| Cinematography | Eric Cross |
| Edited by | Douglas Myers |
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British Consolidated
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| Distributed by | Grand National Pictures (UK) |
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Running time
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82 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Sons of the Sea is a 1939 British colour drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Leslie Banks, Kay Walsh, Mackenzie Ward and Cecil Parker.
Britain, 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 entirely in colour; it was the only feature film to do so using the Dufaycolor process.
It was restored and shown on BBC television in 2005.
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