The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

  • Drama
  • Mystery
  • Thriller
4/11/1976
105

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.

When a widowed mother falls in love with an American sailor, her troubled young son is pressured by the bullying leader of his clique to seek revenge.

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  • Wuchak

    Disturbing, potent, beautiful and undeservedly obscure

    RELEASED IN 1976 and based on the 1963 novel by Yukio Mishima, The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea chronicles events on coastal England where a small group of boys around 12-14 years-old are led by an angry psychopath named the Chief (Earl Rhodes). Jonathan (Jonathan Kahn) experiences Oedipus complex living with his well-to-do widowed mother (Sarah Miles), who starts dating a handsome American sailor (Kris Kristofferson), the second officer of a ship that anchors in the harbor. But what does Jonathan & the Chief have to say about this?

    This mixes unsettling themes and scenic beauty of Last Summer (1969) with the eroticism of movies like Last Tango in Paris (1972) alon...

    June 25, 2020

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