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01/06/1944 War, Drama 1h 17m
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Overview

A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.

  1. Charles Crichton

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. David Farrar

    Murray

  2. Ralph Michael

    Rawlings

  3. John Slater

    Wilkie

  4. Robert Wyndham

    Leverett

  5. Robert Griffith

    Coxswain

  6. John Batten

    Wireless Officer

  7. Tony Bazell

    Overton

  8. Peter Arne

    Junior Officer

  9. James Robertson Justice

    Operations Room Officer

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-05-31
Flyer "P" (Ralph Michael) has been grounded by the RAF and posted to assist a naval rescue squadron tasked with fetching shot-down pilots from the Channel. He's not very happy about this, but his stoic CO "Murray" (David Farrar) is sympathetic to his disgruntlement and gradually hopes that his new charge will begin to appreciate the cruciality of their task. They zip about the water in their high-speed motor launches avoiding enemy fighters and minefields (planted by both sides) and there's a decent sense of peril built up for just about an hour. It's not quite propaganda, but it has a 1944 fe...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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