Directed by:
Lewis GilbertCinematography:
Stephen DadeComposer:
Malcolm ArnoldCast:
Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Steel, Nigel Patrick, Bonar Colleano, Griffith Jones, Victor Maddern, Anton Diffring, Joan Sims, Nigel Green (more)Plots(1)
During the Second World War, Air Commodore Waltby is flying to Allied Command Headquarters with an attaché case packed with information that could stave off an invasion by Germany. Unfortunately, his plane is shot down and he and three colleagues are left drifting in a lifeboat in the North Sea - with the vital intelligence reports still not in the hands of Allied Command. As the Allied authorities direct the search, the four men are edging closer to death and the Germans are planning their assault. (Screenbound Pictures)
(more)Cast
Michael Redgrave
UK
Best movies:
The Hill (1965)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
The Browning Version (1951)
Dirk Bogarde
UK
Best movies:
The Password is Courage (1962)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Damned (1969)
Anthony Steel
UK
Best movies:
I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill (1974) (TV movie)
Winnetou: The Red Gentleman (1964)
Massacre in Rome (1973)
Nigel Patrick
UK
Best movies:
The Browning Version (1951)
Battle of Britain (1969)
The Sound Barrier (1952)
Bonar Colleano
USA
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Zarak (1956)
Fire Down Below (1957)
Griffith Jones
UK
Best movies:
A Performance of Macbeth (1979) (TV movie)
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)
A Yank at Oxford (1938)
Victor Maddern
UK
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Anton Diffring
German Empire
Best movies:
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
The Great Manhunt (1950)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Joan Sims
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985) (TV movie)
Deceptions (1985) (TV movie)
Nigel Green
South Africa
Best movies:
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Michael Ripper
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
Richard III (1955)
The One That Got Away (1957)
Rachel Kempson
UK
Best movies:
Out of Africa (1985)
Grand Prix (1966)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) (TV movie)
Jack Watling
UK
Best movies:
Reach for the Sky (1956)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Follow Me! (1972)
Michael Balfour
UK
Best movies:
Batman (1989)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Eddie Byrne
UK
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Sydney Tafler
UK
Best movies:
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
George Rose
UK
Best movies:
Holocaust (1978) (series)
The Devil's Disciple (1959)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Guy Middleton
UK
Best movies:
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Laughter in Paradise (1951)
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
Glyn Houston
UK
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
The One That Got Away (1957)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
James Kenney
UK
Best movies:
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
The Magic Box (1951)
Above Us the Waves (1955)