Film, TV or Theatrical Adaptations
The novel was made into a film in 1953, directed by Charles Frend and starring Jack Hawkins as Commander Ericson and Donald Sinden as Lockhart.
BBC Radio 4 produced two radio adaptations of the book, the first a two-hour long one in September 1980 starring Richard Pasco as Ericson and Michael N. Harbour as Lockhart, and with George A. Cooper as the Coxswain, and then later a two episode dramatised version, broadcast in March 2012.
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