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Bookmark this pageThe Sea Wolves (1980)
Director: Andrew V McLaglen
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From Time Out Film Guide
The Sea Wolves answers the pressing problem of how to repay the debt we owe to all those superannuated English stiff-upper-lippers now that all the major war campaigns have been filmed. Solution: dredge up some creaking piece of now-it-can-be-told war marginalia about a retired Territorial regiment of polo-playing boozers (The Calcutta Light Horse!) who bid goodbye to the memsahib for a fortnight and blow up some Jerry ships in Goa harbour. McLaglen previously demonstrated a certain competence with physical action in The Wild Geese, but here it's a very pedestrian hour-and-three-quarters before the final crunch - a risible affair with geriatric schoolboys wheezing about, getting hernias. Peck and Niven shamble amiably through the dross as if it were a Navaronian old boys reunion (class of '44), and Roger Moore finds new ways of smirking in a dinner jacket. As a genre - the arterio-sclerotic war movie - it'll never catch on. CPea.Author: CPea
User reviews of this film
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- ginnydaw said...
- Posted on Mar 24 2010 18:38 A highly enjoyable film that will last for a looooong time, yes it is a bit smarmy, and some of the action is a bit "village hall stuff", but never the less, a good watch. IF you only have the saturday night dross to contend with, get a few beers, a takeaway, feet up and enjoy a voyage across the Pacific with "the boys". Great stuff !!
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Cast & crew
Director: Andrew V McLaglen
Producer: Euan Lloyd
Cast: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Barbara Kellerman, Patrick Macnee, Patrick Allen, Bernard Archard, Faith Brook, Kenneth Griffith, Donald Houston full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 122 mins
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