The Blue Peter

NR 6.2
1957 1 hr 33 min Adventure

A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and indoctrination at the hands of his captors, and accepts a post as an instructor at the Outward Bound Sea School.

  • Cast:
    Kieron Moore , Sarah Lawson , Greta Gynt , Mervyn Johns , Harry Fowler , Anthony Newley , Edwin Richfield

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Reviews

BoardChiri
1957/12/01

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

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ThedevilChoose
1957/12/02

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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Lachlan Coulson
1957/12/03

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

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Logan
1957/12/04

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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malcolmgsw
1957/12/05

Kieran Moore plays a naval officer who has been released from captivity in Korea having suffered brainwashing.It is felt that he would benefit from being in charge of youths in an Outward Bound training camp on the Welsh coast.Much of the film in so far as it relates to Moore and his charges is predictable.It is rather difficult to take some of it too seriously when you realise that Fowler was 29 and Newley 24 when the film was made.Strange how the British cinema often asked actors in their twenties to try and play 10 years their junior.However that aside it is a reasonable film with some good exterior shots in a rather strange looking Eastman Colour.This was one of the last efforts of the ill fated Group 3 production company.

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