Seagulls Over Sorrento

Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954)

A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.

Date of release
1954-07-13
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama, War
Director
Roy Boulting, John Boulting

Casting

Interesting facts

Seagulls Over Sorrento is a 1954 British war drama film directed by the Boulting brothers and starring Gene Kelly, John Justin and Bernard Lee. It was written by Frank Harvey and Roy Boulting based on the 1949 play of the same name by Hugh Hastings.

Production

Because the play – in which all the characters were British, and the emphasis was more on the enlisted men than in the film – was a hit, MGM retained the title for the film everywhere except in the US and Canada, where the title Crest of the Wave was used.

Although set on a Scottish island, the movie was filmed in Jersey and at Fort Clonque on Alderney in the Channel Islands, with interiors filmed at MGM's British studios at Borehamwood, Elstree. Production took place between 4 May and late July 1953. The corvette monitoring the tests was HMS Hedingham Castle (pennant F386).

Ernesto de Curtis's song "Torna a Sorrento" ("Come Back to Sorrento"), is performed on the concertina by David Orr, and was also used as background music throughout the film.

The film was one of three made by Kelly in Europe over an 18-month period to make use of frozen MGM funds.

It was shot at MGM's Elstree Studios with sets designed by the art director Alfred Junge with location shooting taking place in the Channel Islands.

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