The Sea Chase

Year: 1955

Runtime: 117 mins

Language: English

Director: John Farrow

WarActionDramaWar and historical adventureDisastrous voyages and heroic survival

John Wayne plays a defiant skipper, Lana Turner his volatile counterpart. As WWII erupts, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich departs Sydney aboard the Ergenstrasse, intent on eluding a British warship. He must escort Elsa Keller, a mysterious woman carrying crucial secrets, back to Germany. Tensions flare when his Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits a brutal atrocity, intensifying the British pursuit.

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