This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I have only seen it appear twice on movie channels, and I have never been able to locate it video stores. A boy is being uneducated as he travels with his grandfather on the high seas, so villagers in their home-town object and threaten to take the boy from his grandfather, who hires a tutor/teacher to travel with them. The movie has coming of age drama, with family ties strained over the boy's hero-worship of someone besides his grandfather. Widmark is brilliant as the teacher/tutor (in his first movie as a non-violent character.) He senses the grandfather's resentment and moves away from the boy very subtly.
Wonderful story.
Wonderful story.