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Information
- Year
- 1953
- Runtime
- 91 min.
- Director
- Raoul Walsh
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Adventure, History
- Rating *
- 5.7
- Votes *
- 382
- Checks
- 76
- Favs
- 4
- Dislikes
- 1
- Favs/checks
- 5.3% (1:19)
- Favs/dislikes
- 4:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
1953's Rock Hudson vehicle, Sea Devils, has one big problem (let's just say I forgive the terrible and almost continuous day-for-night filming) - it's not telling the right story. Because Hudson's Napoleonic-era smuggler is not the hero of this tale; we're much more interested in Yvonne De Carlo's British spy, posing as a countess in France to ferret out military secrets. That's where all the tension lives. But while we spend a considerable amount of time on that section, the film frustratingly returns again and again to Hudson as he helps or impedes the spy mission, or else acts as a cookie-cutter love interest for the heroine. So it's not just that we don't care about his story (which has no arc to it, he just provides grease for the actual story), it's that he actively impedes on it. Get off the screen, Rock Hudson! 6 years 6 months ago