The Eternal Sea (1955)

A career Naval captain (Sterling Hayden) is injured in the Battle Of Leyte Gulf during WWII and loses a leg. But he refuses any thought of retirement and instead is determined to remain in the Navy and eventually command a ship again. Based on the life of Admiral John Madison Hoskins and directed by John H. Auer. This is a standard military film extolling the virtues of heroism and patriotism during the Korean War. It's a painless if tedious sit balancing the action film aspect of it as well as the domestic side with Alexis Smith as the patient Navy wife forever wringing her hands and standing by her man. But it's a dull and uninteresting movie with a bizarre Christian bent at the very end of the film. Even if you're a war movie enthusiast you might find this one a bit of snoozer. There's an underscore by a young Elmer Bernstein. With Virginia Grey as another hand wringing Navy wife, Dean Jagger, Ben Cooper, Hayden Rorke and Douglas Kennedy.