SOS Pacific

SOS Pacific
Directed by Guy Green
Produced by Patrick Filmer Sankey
John G. Nasht
Written by Gilbert Travers Thomas (story)
Bryan Forbes (dialogue)
Starring Richard Attenborough
Pier Angeli
Eva Bartok
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. 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.

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