Single-Handed is a 1953 British war film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie and Wendy Hiller.

During the First World War, Lieutenant Richard Saville, a young Royal Navy officer on five days' leave, and Miss Lucinda Bentley, a merchant's daughter from Portsmouth, get talking on the train up to London.

Halfway through their journey, they miss their rail connection and spend a romantic holiday in the countryside of southern England.

He receives a message from a British merchantman just before it is sunk by the German raider Essen, but HMS Stratford, the flagship of Saville's squadron is too low on fuel for pursuit and the convoy cannot be left unguarded.

Brown was found dead by the landing party and is awarded a Victoria Cross posthumously, presented to his mother.

The action cuts straight from the German survivor to an honours investiture in London, where Brown, who has in this version survived to receive his VC, meets Saville.

Brown tells Saville that his English mother - to whom he owes his joining the navy - is living in Montreal and unable to make it to the ceremony (though whether or not she is Lucinda is not revealed).

The torpedo damage which forces her delay at Resolution Island is simply painted on the side of her port bow.

The scenes when she is holed up for repairs were filmed in the semi-circular Dwejra bay, guarded by Fungus Rock on the west coast of Gozo Island in Malta.

The ship's captain, John Trevor Lean D.S.O., played the part of the navigator in the film as he had to be on the bridge at all times.

The crew of HMS Glasgow is credited in the opening titles; she herself is seen in a few distant shots in company with two Dido-class cruisers, and her triple 6" guns are depicted when Essen fires her main armament at the island in an attempt to dislodge Brown.

[9] Single-Handed had its Royal World Premiere on June 11th 1953 at the Odeon Marble Arch attended by HRH Princess Margaret and Lord Mountbatten.