Cinema: Sunken Ship

CINDERELLA LIBERTY Directed by MARK RYDELL Screenplay by DARRYL PONICSAN

This is the one about the sailor and the whore, and is there anyone out there who still cares?

The unmarried whore has a son, who is part black and approximately twelve years old, just the age the sailor had reached when his own warmly remembered father died. It is immediately apparent that the sailor will begin to act as surrogate father. Indeed, it seems reasonable to expect that the movie will end with a shot of the sailor and the kid walking...

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