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...developed a fondness for quarterdeck sermons and main-deck floggings. He was aroused by the slightest threat to his position, and he soon hated Midshipman Spencer. As the cruise wore on, Spencer remained moodily aloof from his fellow middies, plied his cronies, Boatswain's Mate Sam Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small, with illicit brandy and cigars. Soon Spencer was poring over charts of the West Indies, boasting wildly that he would take over the Somers and become a buccaneer...
Birds of a Feather. In New Orleans, Seaman Ernest McDade was arrested after he walked into a dime store, freed four canaries and nine parakeets from their cages, saying: "Come on out . . . I was in jail once. I know how you feel...
Foreign Influence. In London, Seaman Alexander Miller was convicted of drunkenness and fined 5 shillings, despite his contention: "I [was] suffering from a strange Chinese disease...
Guards who seized the man with the pipe discovered that he had Communist connections of another kind in his record. Alexander Pavlovich, 32, a Yugoslav seaman, had jumped ship in Portland, Ore. in 1951 in a desperate effort to remain in the U.S. Picked up for deportation by immigration authorities, he had unsuccessfully pleaded that sure death faced him in Yugoslavia as an opponent of Marshal Tito's Communist regime. His plea for sanctuary was refused for lack of supporting evidence. In custody, he had tried drastic measures, including slashing his wrists with a razor, to prolong his stay...
With a less constant tempo, with some cutting, particularly in the extraneous and overly familiar episodes on shore-the wartime romance, the seaman's return to his bombed home, his faithless wife-The Cruel Sea would have been far more effective. As it is, the audience may be tempted after two hours to agree with the Captain when he says at the end of the film; "Two U-boats in five years. That's not very much, is it? R. E. OLDENBURG