Film poster advertising the Ealing Studios production, 'The Cruel Sea', 1953. Illustrated by Charles Murray.

'The Cruel Sea' is a 1953 British war film featuring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister. Made by Ealing Studios seven years after the end of the Second World War, it was directed by Charles Frend and produced by Leslie Norman. It is based on the best-selling 1951 novel of the same name by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat.