The Sea Shall Not Have Them

1954

Action / Drama / War

8
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 806 806

rescue sea based on novel or book world war ii

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Lewis Gilbert Photo
Lewis Gilbert

Top cast

Joan Sims Photo
Joan Sims as Hilda Tebbitt
James Kenney Photo
James Kenney as Cpl. Skinner
Jack Watling Photo
Jack Watling as Flying Officer Harding
Nigel Patrick Photo
Nigel Patrick as Flight Sgt. Singsby
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English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 31 min
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1.4 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 31 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by henry8-3 5 / 10

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

Survivors from a crashed aircraft including a commodore holding top secret information (Redgrave) are adrift in the North Sea in a small dinghy. There only hope is the Air Sea Rescue service and Anthony Steele and his crew of likely British character actors set out to find them.Enjoyable enough adventure which is at its best when focussing on the crew of the rescue boat, whilst the more intense dinghy, will they, won't they scenes are a little dull and repetitive. It's a solid British cast of familiar faces all nicely type cast as frightfully stiff upper lip upper or 'cor blimey guvnor' lower classes facing every conceivable mishap on the way, helped especially by Nigel Patrick, spot on as the tough but likeable flight sergeant and Anthony Steele as the man in charge.
Reviewed by richardchatten 5 / 10

"Could you get a new piece of chalk, corporal?"

This tribute to Air Sea Rescue is mainly remembered now for Noel Coward's bad taste observation when contemplating a poster for this film "I don't see why not, everyone else has!" There's certainly very few women in it (which must have suited Dirk Bogarde just fine), although somehow Joan Sims is in it.Like Hitchcock's 'Lifeboat' the cast are cast adrift in an open boat with Michael Redgrave in the Miss Froy part (the MacGuffin taking the form of a attaché case filled with "formula blue-prints and so on").Nigel Patrick is cast against type as a rasping flight sergeant who snarls at new boys "I eat blood and drink rivets!". The music of course is by Malcolm Arnold, who never seems to be taking things as seriously as the cast.
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