Sea Devils
ActionAdventure
5.8/10
|US
|en
|91 min
Release Date: 1953-04-12
Overview - Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
Production Companies
Coronado ProductionsRKO Radio Pictures
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John Chard
6/10
I was a toiler on the sea. Sea Devils is directed by Raoul Walsh and written by Borden Chase. It stars Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Maxwell Reed, Denis O’Dea, Michael Goodlife and Bryan Forbes. Music is by Richard Addinsell and cinematography by Wilkie Cooper. "Guernsey in the Channel Islands near the coast of France in the year 1800, where fishermen, prevented by war from following their u...
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CinemaSerf
6/10
With war raging on the continent, Guernsey fisherman "Gilliatt" (Rock Hudson) likes to engage in a bit of petty smuggling with his pal "Willie" (Bryan Forbes) constantly keeping one step ahead of the excise men. Then he encounters the enigmatic "Droucette" (Yvonne De Carlo) whom we know is on a secret mission from "Lethierry" (Denis O'Dea) to travel back to France so she can garner as much informa...
