SOS Pacific
SOS Pacific is a 1959 British adventure drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eva Bartok and Eddie Constantine.[1][2] The film was shot in black and white, but later underwent colourisation.
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| Directed by | Guy Green |
| Written by | Bryan Forbes (additional scenes and dialogue) |
| Screenplay by | Robert Westerby |
| Based on | Gilbert Thomas (as Gilbert Travers Thomas) (based on a story by) |
| Produced by | Patrick Filmer Sankey John G. Nasht (as John Nasht) |
| Starring | Richard Attenborough Pier Angeli John Gregson Eva Bartok Eddie Constantine |
| Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper |
| Edited by | Arthur Stevens |
| Music by | Georges Auric |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production companies | Sydney Box Associates Remfield |
| Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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 as Whitey Mullen
- Pier Angeli as Teresa
- John Gregson as Jack Bennett
- Eva Bartok as Maria
- Eddie Constantine as Mark Reisner
- Jean Anderson as Miss Shaw
- Cec Linder as Willy
- Clifford Evans as Petersen
- Gunnar Möller as Krauss
- Harold Kasket as Monk (as Harold Kaskett)
- Andrew Faulds as Sea Captain
- Cyril Shaps as Louis
- Tom Bowman as Alberto