SURGING DRAMA! Excitement that leaps from the screen!
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.
- 7.1
- 1954
- Released
- 1h 31m
Michael Redgrave
Air Commodore Waltby
Dirk Bogarde
Flt Sgt Mackay
Jack Watling
Flying Officer Harding
Bonar Colleano
Sgt Kirby
Anthony Steel
Flying Officer Treherne
Nigel Patrick
Flt Sgt Slingsby
James Kenney
Cpl. Skinner
Sydney Tafler
Cpl. Robb
Griffith Jones
Group Capt. Todd
Guy Middleton
Squadron Leader Scott
Rachel Kempson
Mrs. Waltby
Joan Sims
Hilda Tebbitt
Anton Diffring
German Pilot
Nigel Green
Met Officer Howard
Michael Ripper
Botterhill
Paul Carpenter
Lt Patrick Boyle, Sea Otter Pilot
George Rose
Tebbitt
Glyn Houston
Knox
Victor Maddern
Gus Westover
Eddie Byrne
Petty Officer Porter
Jack Taylor
RobinsonMichael Balfour
Dray
Gudrun Ure
Kirby's Fiancee
Jack Lambert
Squadron Leader Craig
Moultrie Kelsall
Wing Commander Dixon
Graham Stark
Corporal (Uncredited)
Patrick Jordan
Flight Sergeant(uncredited)Released
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- #rescue
- #sea
- #based on novel or book
- #world war ii
- #black and white
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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,