SOS Pacific
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| Directed by | Guy Green |
| Written by | Gilbert Travers Thomas (story) Bryan Forbes (dialogue) |
| Produced by | Patrick Filmer Sankey John G. Nasht |
| Starring | Richard Attenborough Pier Angeli John Gregson Eva Bartok Eddie Constantine |
| Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper |
| Edited by | Arthur Stevens |
| Distributed by | Rank Organization |
Release dates | December, 1959 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
SOS Pacific is a 1959 British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough and Pier Angeli.[1][2] The film was shot in black and white, but later underwent colourisation.
Plot synopsis
A flying boat is forced to ditch in the Pacific during a thunderstorm. Aboard are the owner-pilot Jack Bennett (John Gregson), the navigator Willy (Cec Linder), the flight attendant Teresa (Pier Angeli) and six passengers: a policeman, Petersen (Clifford Evans); his prisoner Mark (Eddie Constantine); Whitey Mullen (Richard Attenborough), a witness against Mark; Dr Strauss, a German scientist (Gunnar Möller); Miss Shaw, a middle-aged Englishwoman (Jean Anderson) and Maria, a young European woman (Eva Bartok).
The plane comes down near an island. The navigator has been killed by toxic gas produced when the wrong kind of extinguisher is used on an electrical fire aboard the plane but the others make it to land in two rubber dinghies. Just offshore a fleet of derelict ships is anchored. On the island are two concrete bunkers. In one, a number of goats are tethered. The other, which is lead-lined, contains cameras and measuring instruments. The cameras are trained on a device standing on a smaller island some distance away.
The castaways realise that they are in the middle of an H-Bomb testing range and that a bomb is to be detonated in a few hours.
Cast
- Richard Attenborough - Whitey Mullen
- Pier Angeli - Teresa
- John Gregson - Capt. John 'Jack' Bennett
- Eva Bartok - Maria
- Eddie Constantine - Mark
- Gunnar Möller - Dr. Strauss
- Jean Anderson - Miss Shaw
- Cec Linder - Willy
- Clifford Evans - Petersen
- Harold Kasket - Monk
- Andrew Faulds - Sea Captain
- Cyril Shaps - Louis
References
External links
- SOS Pacific at IMDb
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- 1959 films
- 1950s thriller films
- British thriller films
- British films
- British black-and-white films
- Films about aviation accidents or incidents
- Films directed by Guy Green
- Films shot at Pinewood Studios
- Films about nuclear war and weapons
- Films about sharks
- Films set in Oceania
- Films set on uninhabited islands
- Films shot in the Canary Islands
- 1950s British film stubs