THE SEA WOLVES is an engaging enough romp, that kinda pays tribute to the brave men of the Calcutta Light Horse who cut off the Germans' intelligence pipeline out of Portugese Goa, but it's very hard to believe that this film was shot just one year before RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. That it was directed by Andrew McLaglen may account for its old-fashioned look and feel, but really this kind of studio production was pretty much redundant by 1980.
It's worth a look, but you'd spend two hours more profitably by watching a better war film than this one - for example THIN RED LINE. Come to think of it, even corny 1960s stuff like THE DIRTY DOZEN is better put together than this. Good story, fair script. Bit of waste of a great cast, really ...
It's worth a look, but you'd spend two hours more profitably by watching a better war film than this one - for example THIN RED LINE. Come to think of it, even corny 1960s stuff like THE DIRTY DOZEN is better put together than this. Good story, fair script. Bit of waste of a great cast, really ...