Rent The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)
3.3 of 5 from 70 ratings
1h 29min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A stirring British war film depicting the boat crews whose job it was to rescue downed RAF pilots. After the Normandy D-Day landings, a dangerous attempt is made to rescue the survivors of a WWII British Hudson bomber, crashed at sea. On board is an Air Commodore who has secret plans that could stop enemy air raids on London.
- Actors:
- Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Steel, Nigel Patrick, Bonar Colleano, James Kenney, Sydney Tafler, Griffith Jones, Jack Watling, Guy Middleton, Ian Whittaker, Paul Carpenter, George Rose, Victor Maddern, Eddie Byrne, Anton Diffring, Gudrun Ure, Rachel Kempson, Joan Sims, Michael Balfour
- Directors:
- Lewis Gilbert
- Producers:
- Daniel M. Angel
- Writers:
- Lewis Gilbert, John Harris, Vernon Harris
- Studio:
- Screenbound Pictures Limited
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 1, Drama Films & TV, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Vanessa Redgrave, A Brief History of Film..., WWII Films: Beaches, Oceans and Camps
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 15/05/2017
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Sea Rescue. - The Sea Shall Not Have Them review by Steve
Critics have not been kind to this interesting and realistic WWII picture. But it's worth seeing for the deep cast of British stalwarts, and for the exposure of a sector of the armed forces not often acknowledged: the Air-Sea Rescue Service. There was an ultra-low budget version made in the war years, For Those in Peril (1944).
This can hardly have cost much more, but is an entertainment rather than mostly a tribute. There's a rudimentary plot with a bomber crew drifting in a dinghy in the freezing cold of the North Sea, desperate for the rescue team to locate them in the heavy fog. While the wives and girlfriends wait anxiously on shore...
Only this has a MacGuffin... One of the stricken men (Michael Redgrave) is handcuffed to a briefcase which will change the course of the war! And that hints at the quality of the cast, with Dirk Bogarde also in the dinghy. Anthony Steel is the captain of the rescue team. Nigel Patrick is the standout as the usual tough Sergeant with a heart.
And there's a Who's Who of British support actors. We get shoddy back projection, but the suspense works, and director Lewis Gilbert creates a plausible impression of the hazardous rescue, even if everything goes wrong, like it's a staff induction video! A must-see for fans of British war films.
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