During autumn of 1944, an 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.
Michael Redgrave
Dirk Bogarde
Jack Watling
Bonar Colleano
Anthony Steel
Nigel Patrick
James Kenney
Sydney Tafler
Griffith Jones
Guy Middleton
Rachel Kempson
Joan Sims
Anton Diffring
Nigel Green
Michael Ripper
Ian Whittaker
Paul Carpenter
George Rose
Glyn Houston
Victor Maddern
Eddie Byrne
Jack Taylor
Michael Balfour
Gudrun Ure
Jack Lambert
Moultrie Kelsall
Graham Stark