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review: the sailor who fell from grace with the sea (1976)
By vrtualme | September 18, 2007
Many many years ago I saw an odd little film called The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976) from writer Lewis John Carlino (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 1977 and The Mechanic 1972) who was also making his directorial début. I never forgot it, and it took me close to 20 years to finally get another copy to view. On the surface it’s a pleasant little story about a boy and his widowed mother who live in a nice big welsh seaside house. Life almost seems perfect when a sailor, played by Kris Kristofferson (The Jacket 2005), starts a relationship with the mother. But when that sailor decides to give-up the sea to marry the mother, it threatens the boy’s romantic ideas about the perfect order of life leading to one of the most disturbing endings in cinematic history. This movie earned two Golden Globe nominations for best acting debut Jonathan Kahn (Though he only made one more film after this) and best actress Sarah Miles (Blowup 1966). The original British version is X-rated, but the American version is supposedly tamed down considerably. There is no official website or trailer available for this film; which kills me because I would love to give you a taste of how great this movie is.