Brown on Resolution (film)
Brown on Resolution (US title: Born for Glory; UK re-issue title: Forever England) is a 1935 film adaptation of the 1929 C. S. Forester novel Brown on Resolution, with John Mills in his first lead role playing the title role. The film is also notable for being the first film to use actual Royal Navy ships. The plot is centred on the illegitimate son of a British naval officer helping to bring about the downfall of a German cruiser during World War I.
| Brown on Resolution | |
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VHS cover of the re-issue | |
| Directed by | Walter Forde Anthony Asquith |
| Written by | J. O. C. Orton dialogue Michael Hogan Gerard Fairlie |
| Based on | novel by C. S. Forester |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Starring | John Mills Betty Balfour Barry MacKay Jimmy Hanley |
| Cinematography | Bernard Knowles |
| Edited by | Otto Ludwig |
| Music by | Louis Levy |
| Distributed by | Gaumont British Picture Corporation |
Release dates | 15 May 1935 (UK) 19 October 1935 (USA) |
Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The novel was also later adapted as Sailor of the King (also titled Single-Handed in the US, and sometimes – though rarely – Brown on Resolution), in 1953. The 1935 version retains the novel's original World War I setting, but in the 1953 remake, the setting is realistically updated to the Second World War, as the Germans resumed commerce raiding with surface warships in 1939.