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01/06/1954 Drama, War 1h 31m
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SURGING DRAMA! Excitement that leaps from the screen!

Overview

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.

  1. Lewis Gilbert

    Director, Writer

  2. Vernon Harris

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Michael Redgrave

    Air Commodore Waltby

  2. Dirk Bogarde

    Flt Sgt Mackay

  3. Jack Watling

    Flying Officer Harding

  4. Bonar Colleano

    Sgt Kirby

  5. Anthony Steel

    Flying Officer Treherne

  6. Nigel Patrick

    Flt Sgt Slingsby

  7. James Kenney

    Cpl. Skinner

  8. Sydney Tafler

    Cpl. Robb

  9. Griffith Jones

    Group Capt. Todd

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-07-08
Despite the fact that much of this film appears to have been filmed in a London lido, it still manages to engender quite a bit of peril. The passengers of a shot down plane are adrift in the Channel in a lifeboat with limited rations, cold and wet, praying for rescue before discovery by the Nazis or death by more long-drawn out means. It's got many of the usual ingredients of a wartime adventure, but is told in quite an interesting manner - each of the passengers having their few minutes of fame to explain why they are in their current predicament. Their would be rescuers are having quite a fe...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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