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The Sea Shall Not Have Them( 1954)

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SURGING DRAMA! Excitement that leaps from the screen!

Overview

During autumn of 1944, an 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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Michael Redgrave

      Air Commodore Waltby

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      Dirk Bogarde

      Flt Sgt Mackay

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      Jack Watling

      Flying Officer Harding

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      Bonar Colleano

      Sgt Kirby

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      Anthony Steel

      Flying Officer Treherne

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      Nigel Patrick

      Flt Sgt Slingsby

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      James Kenney

      Cpl. Skinner

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      Sydney Tafler

      Cpl. Robb

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      Griffith Jones

      Group Capt. Todd

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      Guy Middleton

      Squadron Leader Scott

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      Rachel Kempson

      Mrs. Waltby

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      Joan Sims

      Hilda Tebbitt

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      Anton Diffring

      German Pilot

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      Nigel Green

      Met Officer Howard

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      Michael Ripper

      Botterhill

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      Ian Whittaker

      A.C.2 Milliken

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      Paul Carpenter

      Lt Patrick Boyle, Sea Otter Pilot

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      George Rose

      Tebbitt

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      Glyn Houston

      Knox

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      Victor Maddern

      Gus Westover

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      Eddie Byrne

      Petty Officer Porter

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      Jack Taylor

      Robinson

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      Michael Balfour

      Dray

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      Gudrun Ure

      Kirby's Fiancee

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      Jack Lambert

      Squadron Leader Craig

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      Moultrie Kelsall

      Wing Commander Dixon

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      Graham Stark

      Corporal (Uncredited)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jul 08 2024
    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 few...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • rescue
    • sea
    • based on novel or book
    • world war ii