The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is a 1976 British drama film starring Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles, directed by Lewis John Carlino.

[4] The novel is set in Japan but the story's location was changed to the English town of Dartmouth, Devon, where it was also filmed.

When a large merchant ship anchors temporarily in the harbour, Anne arranges to give her son a tour of the vessel.

When Cameron comes back to renew his relationship with Anne and forsake his life on the sea, Chief and the boys concoct a sinister plot to do away with the intruder.

[6] John C Mahoney saw the central triangle through the prism of Greek myth: "How much Oedipal vengeance is there in his sense of betrayal by adults, his growing conviction that he must participate in a ritual to return Kristofferson to his place in the pure order of the sea and away from the corruption of his code on land?