The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)
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Directors
Lewis Gilbert
Cast
Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Steel, Nigel Patrick
The story
It is the autumn of 1944. Allied armies are sweeping through France towards Germany. A British Lockheed Hudson has been damaged in aerial combat with a German Messerschmitt, with both aircraft ditching in the North Sea, twenty miles off the Dutch coast.
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War Film, war film
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