HMS Compass Rose

KL Seestern · 08-08-06, 02:44 PM

I agree with Clive -- it's very good. Jack Hawkins is joined by some other fine (and at the time quite young!) British actors like Donald Sinden and Denholm Elliott, and the screen adaptation is by the well-known thriller writer Eric Ambler. Obviously it looks a little dated half a century after it was made, but given its limits of technology and content, the film (like the novel on which it's based) does stand on a par with Das Boot.

08-08-06, 02:44 PM	#7
KL Seestern Mate Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 53 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I agree with Clive -- it's very good. Jack Hawkins is joined by some other fine (and at the time quite young!) British actors like Donald Sinden and Denholm Elliott, and the screen adaptation is by the well-known thriller writer Eric Ambler. Obviously it looks a little dated half a century after it was made, but given its limits of technology and content, the film (like the novel on which it's based) does stand on a par with Das Boot.