Sterling Hayden

Alexis Smith

Ben Cooper

Dean Jagger

Virginia Grey

Hayden Rorke

Douglas Kennedy

Louis Jean Heydt

Richard Crane

Morris Ankrum

Frank Ferguson

John Maxwell

William Kerwin

Jil Jarmyn

Alan Dexter

John H. Auer

Allen Rivkin

William Wister Haines

Elmer Bernstein

John L. Russell

Frank Hotaling

T.A. Carman

George Milo

John McCarthy Jr.

Gene Anderson Jr.

Theodore Lydecker

Bob Mark

Howard Wilson

Howard Lydecker

Dick Geary

Adele Palmer

Fred Allen

Drama

The Eternal Sea

Republic Pictures

United States of America

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This is another film that is really let down by it's title. One that suggests more of a swashbuckler - or a romance, at any rate - than a biopic of American Admiral Hoskins (Sterling Hayden) who was a pioneer of the use of jet aircraft from aircraft carriers. As it is, it's an OK depiction of the struggles of the man against the elements, technology, human frailty and government to get his ideas implemented. Hayden is a charm-free actor here, his dedication to his task is laudable, but cheerless and any semblance of romance with wife Sue (a rather prim Alexis Smith) left me cold. It does have oodles of wonderful original aerial photography to augment it, though - and that helps. Sadly, though, this is all as flat as the deck on the "USS Princeton".

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