
The Blue Peter
"A Stirring Saga of the Sea -- and a Heart-warming story about a place that makes boys men and men into heroes"
Synopsis
A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and indoctrination at the hands of his captors, and accepts a post as an instructor at the Outward Bound Sea School.
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