After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors – while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British war film starring Jack Hawkins. The film, which was made by Ealing Studios seven years after the end of the Second World War, is based on the best selling novel