

17/11/1959
Em meio ao Canal da Mancha, um pequeno barco de salvados encontra um grande vapor cargueiro, aparentemente à deriva após ter sido abandonado pela tripulação, durante um incêndio a bordo. Mas o que parecia ser um excelente golpe de sorte para a tripulação revelar-se-á um intrigante mistério quando, afinal, o capitão ainda revela estar a bordo, apostado em levar o navio rumo a águas perigosas, onde seguramente se afundará.

Gary Cooper
as Gideon Patch

Charlton Heston
as John Sands

Michael Redgrave
as Mr. Nyland

Virginia McKenna
as Janet Taggart

Richard Harris
as Higgins

Emlyn Williams
as Sir Wilfred Falcett

Alexander Knox
as Petrie

Cecil Parker
as Inquiry Chairman

Ben Wright
as Mike Duncan

Peter Illing
as Gunderson

Terence de Marney
as

Ashley Cowan
as

Charles Davis
as

John Le Mesurier
as Attorney

Noel Drayton
as Charlie Bell

John Dearth
as Reporter

Paul Bryar
as Port Official (uncredited)

Albert Carrier
as Ambulance Attendant (uncredited)

Louis Mercier
as Commander of Police (uncredited)

Ron Nyman
as Seaman (uncredited)

Lomax Study
as Photographer (uncredited)
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