The Sea Shall Not Have Them

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.

Cast

Michael Redgrave

Michael Redgrave

as Air Commodore Waltby

Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde

as Flt Sgt Mackay

Jack Watling

Jack Watling

as Flying Officer Harding

Bonar Colleano

Bonar Colleano

as Sgt Kirby

Anthony Steel

Anthony Steel

as Flying Officer Treherne

Nigel Patrick

Nigel Patrick

as Flt Sgt Slingsby

James Kenney

James Kenney

as Cpl. Skinner

Sydney Tafler

Sydney Tafler

as Cpl. Robb

Griffith Jones

Griffith Jones

as Group Capt. Todd

Guy Middleton

Guy Middleton

as Squadron Leader Scott

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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...

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