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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976)
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Release Date:
8 September 1976 (Sweden)
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He gave his soul to the sea and his heart to a woman. Their love will arouse you. The story will disturb you. The ending will startle you.
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After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life. | add synopsis
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
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Languid like the sea
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Sarah Miles | ... | Anne Osborne |
 | Kris Kristofferson | ... | Jim Cameron |
| Jonathan Kahn | ... | Jonathan Osborne - Number Three |
| Margo Cunningham | ... | Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer |
| Earl Rhodes | ... | Chief - Number One |
| Paul Tropea | ... | Number Two |
| Gary Lock | ... | Number Four |
| Stephen Black | ... | Number Five |
| Peter Clapham | ... | Richard Pettit |
| Jennifer Tolman | ... | Mary Ingram |
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USA:105 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Australia:R |
UK:18 (video rating) |
UK:X (original rating) |
West Germany:18 |
Finland:K-18 |
France:-16 |
Norway:15 |
Sweden:15 |
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Angels' Revenge (#7.22)" (1995)
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Soundtrack:
Sea Dream Theme
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This movie is morbid but is quite faithful to the original story. And it uses its Dover location very effectively in showing a place isolated in its own mythology.
The story is about a fatherless adolescent boy who is himself very much like the sea. He is restless and calm and seemingly untameable. All the confusion and frustrations of adolescence are portrayed here in an honesty that no other movie has ever dared to show. The restless urge to be a grown up and to move on to a life of daring excitement, and the desire to find a philosophy and a poetry to which one can ascribe are all explored in an uncompromising way in this film.
Desperate for an authority and leadership that he can look up to, the boy finds himself vying for the acceptance of a sadistic boy with a Nietzsche complex who uses a strain of hierarchy in his little band of friends in order to maintain control. Soon Kristofferson shows up and as he seems to be the stuff of oceanic legends, the boy finds a new hero to worship.
I would not even attempt to give the ending away. Suffice it to say that this is a most disturbing film in its subject matter and for those with short attention spans, it may seem slow in its pace. But like the sea, the film is languid in its pacing and it promises the same degree of poetry and savagery.
Fascinating viewing!