WW2 P/O David Plume HMS Anson Atlantic Convoys 1943 signed Navy cover Cruel Sea Film. Rare cover only 10 were ...

WW2 P/O David Plume HMS Anson Atlantic Convoys 1943 signed Navy cover Cruel Sea Film. Rare cover only 10 were autographed, numbered on the back. Superb image from the classic WW2 film the Cruel Sea by Leslie Norman. Scarce Great British War Films Pinewood special postmark and St Pauls 25p Stamp in the Blitz. The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British war film based on the best-selling 1951 novel of the same name by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat, though the screenplay by Eric Ambler omits some of the novel's grimmest moments. The film stars Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister. The movie was made by Ealing Studios seven years after the end of World War II. It was directed by Charles Frend and produced by Leslie Norman. The film portrays the conditions in which the Battle of the Atlantic was fought between the Royal Navy and Germany's U-boats, seen from the viewpoint of the British naval officers and seamen who served in convoy escorts. . Good condition Est.