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Writers:
Nigel Balchin (screenplay)
Peter De Sarigny (idea)
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Release Date:
5 August 1954 (USA) more
Plot:
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open... more | add synopsis
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A Mix of Cinematic Journalism and Romantic Love more (12 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Alec Guinness | ... | Flight Lt. Peter Ross |
 | Jack Hawkins | ... | Air CO Frank |
| Anthony Steel | ... | Wing Cmdr Bartlett |
| Muriel Pavlow | ... | Maria Gonzar |
| Renée Asherson | ... | Joan Rivers (as Renee Asherson) |
| Hugh Burden | ... | Eden, Security |
| Nigel Stock | ... | Giuseppe Gonzar aka Ricardi |
| Reginald Tate | ... | Vice Adm Payne |
| Ralph Truman | ... | Vice Adm Willie Banks |
| Flora Robson | ... | Melita Gonzar, Maria's Mum |
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UK:103 min | USA:97 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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UK:U | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #17089, General Audience) | Australia:G
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Having just read "Tobruk" by Chester Wilmot, a journalist who spent time in the Tobruk siege and reported diligently about it, this piece informed me of another similar siege that I was unaware of. The use of archive footage is fascinating, mixed in with a simple story of love that feels lighter and without the moralising heaviness and embarrassing "post modern" pretensions of many modern day films ... especially war films. Very much a product of it's time ... they really don't make them like this anymore. Some of it feels like a War time moral raising film. I even thought it was made in the war until I found out the 1953 date. But memories were still strong in those days of course, so there is a flavour of a story burning to be told to the world before times move on.