The Sea Shall Not Have Them

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.

• Lewis GilbertDirector
• Vernon HarrisWriter
• Lewis GilbertWriter
• Malcolm ArnoldOriginal Music Composer

• Michael RedgraveAir Commodore Waltby
• Dirk BogardeFlt Sgt Mackay
• Jack WatlingFlying Officer Harding
• Bonar ColleanoSgt Kirby
• Anthony SteelFlying Officer Treherne
• Nigel PatrickFlt Sgt Slingsby
• James KenneyCpl. Skinner
• Sydney TaflerCpl. Robb
• Griffith JonesGroup Capt. Todd
• Guy MiddletonSquadron Leader Scott
• Rachel KempsonMrs. Waltby
• Joan SimsHilda Tebbitt