Passage Home

• Director: Roy Ward Baker
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Melodrama
• Themes: Disasters at Sea
• Release Year: 1955
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 102 minutes

Plot

A Richard Armstrong novel was the source for the British sea melodrama Passage Home. Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harbored in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch. The film's predictable highlight is an outsized sea storm, during which a besotted Finch struggles to stay sober long enough to keep everyone from falling overboard. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Martin Benson - Guiterres; Michael Bryant; Diane Cilento - Ruth Elton; Michael Craig - Burton; Cyril Cusack - Bohannon; Peter Finch - Capt. Lucky Ryland; Hugh Griffith - Pettigrew; Glyn Houston; Gordon Jackson - Burne; Geoffrey Keen - Ike; Sam Kydd; Duncan Lamont - Llewellyn; Arthur Lovegrove; Philip Ray; Anthony Steel - 1st Mate Vosper; John Warren; Patrick Westwood; George Woodbridge; Bryan Forbes - Shorty; Patrick McGoohan - McIsaacs; Ian Whittaker; Leonard White; Gerald Anderson; Scott Harold; Robert Brown - Shane

Credit

Roy Ward Baker - Director, Geoffrey Unsworth - Cinematographer, Julian Wintle - Producer, William Fairchild - Screenwriter, Richard Armstrong - Book Author

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