Brown on Resolution

Unrated

10/18/19351h 10m

Theatrical Release (US)

Overview:

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?

Director:

Walter Forde

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

based on novel or book
world war i
royal navy

Cast

Betty Balfour

~ as ~

Elizabeth Brown

John Mills

~ as ~

Albert Brown

Barry MacKay

~ as ~

Lt. Somerville

Jimmy Hanley

~ as ~

Ginger

Howard Marion-Crawford

~ as ~

Max

H.G. Stoker

~ as ~

Capt. Holt

Percy Walsh

~ as ~

Kapitan von Lutz

George Merritt

~ as ~

William Brown

Cyril Smith

~ as ~

William Brown, Jr.

Charles Childerstone

~ as ~

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
C.S. Forester was wonderful at writing evocative seafaring yarns and this is one of his better stories. The film starts with couple of strangers who meet on a train and end up missing their connection and spending a few days together. Advance a few years and a powerful Nazi raider sinks a British warship and picks up the survivors. For one of them - "Albert Brown" (John Mills) the war isn't over and when the ship puts into a remote location to effect repairs, he steals a rifle and heads ashore from where he promptly takes pot shots at the repair crew. His plan is to delay the mending long enough for a pursuing Royal Navy flotilla to catch up and destroy the enemy ship. Walter Forde has assembled a strong cast of British actors - with a young Jimmy Hanley and Howard Marion-Crawford amongst them to keep the adventure moving along well, after a fairly slow start, that builds to an exciting denouement - and a question: could "Brown" be the result of that assignation many years earlier...?