Brown on Resolution (film)

Infobox Film
name = Brown on Resolution


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caption = VHS cover of the re-issue
director = Walter Forde
Anthony Asquith
producer = Michael Balcon
writer = C. S. Forester (novel)
Gerard Fairlie
starring = John Mills
Betty Balfour
Barry MacKay
Jimmy Hanley
music = Louis Levy
cinematography = Bernard Knowles
editing = Otto Ludwig
distributor = Gaumont British Picture Corporation
released = 15 May 1935 (UK)
19 October 1935 (USA)
runtime = 70 min
country = UK
language = English
budget =
gross =
amg_id = 1:85710
imdb_id = 0026377:"Forever England redirects here - the phrase is also a quotation from Rupert Brooke's poem "The Soldier".""Brown on Resolution" (US title - "Born for Glory"; UK re-issue title - "Forever England") is a 1935 film adaptation of the CS Forester novel "Brown on Resolution". The plot is centred on the illegitimate son of a British naval officer singlehandedly bringing about the downfall of a German battleship during World War I. The title role is played by John Mills, his first lead role, and it is also notable for being the first film to use actual Royal Navy ships [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:85710] Fact|date=March 2008 .

The novel was also later adapted as "Sailor of the King" (also titled "Single-Handed" in the US, and sometimes - though rarely - "Brown on Resolution"), in 1953. Unlike the 1953 version, the 1935 version retains the novel's original Great War setting throughout.

Plot

In the South Pacific in the First World War, Brown is marooned on the remote Galapagos island of Resolution when the cruiser he is serving on, HMS "Rutland", is sunk. A German battlecruiser (the fictitious SMS "Ziethen" [Played by HMS|Curacoa|D41|6, which sank on 2nd October 1942 due to being cut in half by "Queen Mary" while on escort duties.] ) takes him prisoner whilst it defeats an inferior British force. It then suffers damage in a second encounter and her captain plans to pull into an isolated Pacific anchorage to try to repair his vessel. There, the resourceful Brown escapes, steals a rifle and a small amount of ammunition, and makes his way ashore.

The German vessel's main battery cannot be brought to bear on Brown, and he is able to pick off exposed crew-members who are trying to repair her punctured hull plates. The anchorage is an impenetrable tangle of scrub and thorn bushes, making it difficult for shore parties to run him to ground.

Brown is eventually killed by a German shot, never learning that his actions delayed the repairs long enough for the raider's British pursuers to catch her up and destroy her. Brown becomes a hero, the British erect a cross on the highest point on the island to commemorate him, and the commander of the British ship discovers that Brown was the illegitimate son he always denied he had.

Cast

*Betty Balfour - Elizabeth Brown
*John Mills - Albert Brown
*Barry MacKay - Lt. Somerville
*Jimmy Hanley - Ginger
*Howard Marion-Crawford - Max
*H.G. Stoker - Captain Holt
*Percy Walsh - Kapitan von Lutz
*George Merritt - William Brown
*Cyril Smith - William Brown, Jr.

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External links

*imdb title|0026377|Brown on Resolution