The Sea Shall Not Have Them

SURGING DRAMA! Excitement that leaps from the screen!

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.

• Release date
• June 1, 1954
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Genres
• Drama, War
• Director
• Lewis Gilbert

Cast

Michael Redgrave Air Commodore Waltby Dirk Bogarde Flt Sgt Mackay Jack Watling Flying Officer Harding Bonar Colleano Sgt Kirby Anthony Steel Flying Officer Treherne Nigel Patrick Flt Sgt Slingsby James Kenney Cpl. Skinner Sydney Tafler Cpl. Robb