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The Sea Shall Not Have Them

- SURGING DRAMA! Excitement that leaps from the screen!

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.

Release Date : 1954-06-01

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Angel Productions

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Air Commodore Waltby

Original Name : Michael Redgrave

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flt Sgt Mackay

Original Name : Dirk Bogarde

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flying Officer Harding

Original Name : Jack Watling

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sgt Kirby

Original Name : Bonar Colleano

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flying Officer Treherne

Original Name : Anthony Steel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flt Sgt Slingsby

Original Name : Nigel Patrick

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cpl. Skinner

Original Name : James Kenney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cpl. Robb

Original Name : Sydney Tafler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Group Capt. Todd

Original Name : Griffith Jones

Gender : Male

Character Name : Squadron Leader Scott

Original Name : Guy Middleton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Waltby

Original Name : Rachel Kempson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Hilda Tebbitt

Original Name : Joan Sims

Gender : Female

Character Name : German Pilot

Original Name : Anton Diffring

Gender : Male

Character Name : Met Officer Howard

Original Name : Nigel Green

Gender : Male

Character Name : Botterhill

Original Name : Michael Ripper

Gender : Male

Character Name : A.C.2 Milliken

Original Name : Ian Whittaker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lt Patrick Boyle, Sea Otter Pilot

Original Name : Paul Carpenter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tebbitt

Original Name : George Rose

Gender : Male

Character Name : Knox

Original Name : Glyn Houston

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gus Westover

Original Name : Victor Maddern

Gender : Male

Character Name : Petty Officer Porter

Original Name : Eddie Byrne

Gender : Male

Character Name : Robinson

Original Name : Jack Taylor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dray

Original Name : Michael Balfour

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kirby's Fiancee

Original Name : Gudrun Ure

Gender : Female

Character Name : Squadron Leader Craig

Original Name : Jack Lambert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wing Commander Dixon

Original Name : Moultrie Kelsall

Gender : Male

Character Name : Corporal (Uncredited)

Original Name : Graham Stark

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

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 few problems of their own, and the whole thing builds nicely to quite an exciting denouement. The cast - Dirk Bogarde, Michael Redgrave, Nigel Patrick and Anthony Steele work efficiently, if not sparklingly, together within the confines of their dinghy; their tolerances of their environment and of each other - regardless of rank - stretches patience and tests tempers in a plausible fashion. At times I felt I was on the boat with them - a testament to the intense direction from Lewis Gilbert who manages to compensate for the limited resources available to the film, and create quite a compelling, realistic looking story.