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.
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
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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

Griffith Jones
Group Capt. Todd

Guy Middleton
Squadron Leader Scott

Rachel Kempson
Mrs. Waltby

Joan Sims
Hilda Tebbitt

Anton Diffring
German Pilot

Nigel Green
Met Officer Howard
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