Laughed out loud at the inuendo of the final shot.

Just saw this for the first time on TCM. Never even heard of this film before and I nearly passed it by. Glad I didn't because it's pretty good really for its era and subject matter. Not a role I'd have imagined for Conrad but he carries it off excellently.

The reviewer comments on the grownup sexual tension between the leads and that's true enough but I wasn't prepared for the fadeout.

The tension resolves itself as Conrad calls Valerie to his sea cabin and they get down to business. He tells he to take off her life jacket and the camera pans downward, the life jacket hitting the floor as they go into a clinch. Then quickcut to the ship's phallic soaked anchor cutting into and out of the the churning sea.

I loved that. Even better then Cary Grant's and Eva Marie Saint's train entering the tunnel in North by Northwest. But so completely unexpected here in a wartime film it totally caught me off guard.

And an addition to the film trivia. Regarding the convoy escorts momentarily glimpsed in the first couple of minutes. Trivia mentions the destroyer H-11 was lost in the Dunkirk evacuation. But another destroyer was also seen, the H-88. I looked up both ships before I saw the IMDB trivia. H-88 was also lost at Dunkirk with VERY heavy loss of life to both crew and the embarked British soldiers. Rather sad to think most of the men who would have been on both vessels had only months left to live.