The Man Without a Country (1973)

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Country: USA
Genres: Adventure, Drama
Release: 1973-04-24
Director: Delbert Mann (I) (1920–2007)
Writers: Sidney Carroll , Edward Everett Hale
Language: English
Stars: Cliff Robertson , Beau Bridges (I) , Peter Strauss , Robert Ryan , Walter Abel , Geoffrey Holder , Shepperd Strudwick (1907–1983) , John Cullum , Patricia Elliott , Alexander Clark
Runtime: 78 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 1 nomination total
AKA: L'homme qui n'avait pas de patrie (France, French Republic) , 祖国なき男 (Japan) , The Man Without a Country (United States of America) , Der Mann ohne Vaterland , The Man Without a Country , Omul fără patrie (Romania) , The Man Without a Country (Canada) , El hombre sin patria (Spain)
Plot: At his court martial for conspiring to attack and annex Mexico with Aaron Burr, young Army officer Philip Nolan angrily blurts out that he wishes to never again hear of the United States. The tribunal, shocked by his outburst, sentences him to exile, permanently sailing the high seas on Navy ships, never to set foot on American soil again, with orders to all crew members that he is never to see or hear anything about his erstwhile homeland. As the decades pass, Nolan earns the friendship and respect of many crewmen, including proving himself an able warrior during one ferocious sea battle. He becomes a hungry scholar of languages and natural sciences gleaned from foreign books and comes to regret his views, causing his shipboard comrades to beseech Washington for leniency and forgiveness for the repentant man, now America's most ardent admirer.
IMDB:tt0070364