Gift Horse (1952)

Directors

Compton Bennett

Cast

Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Sonny Tufts, Bernard Lee, Dora Bryan

The story

In the Second World War, the Royal Navy is desperately short of personnel. Court-martialled eight years before, Lieutenant Commander Fraser is brought out of retirement and put in command of the antiquated "four pipe" First World War-vintage ship HMS Ballantrae, formerly USS Whittier, one of the Town-class destroyers from the destroyers-for-bases deal. On her first mission, convoy escort duty, Ballantrae suffers a burst steam pipe and has to be left behind while repairs are effected.

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