"I tried to match him drink for drink. I got sloshed,he just got better." - Ric Fields
Robert Shaw as First Officer Will Gorman
Off the Spanish coast, two tug-boat captains are caught in a violent feud over a woman but their rivalry is set aside when a sinking freighter carrying explosives must be salvaged and towed to port.
Directed by Cy Endfield
Screenplay by John Kruse and Cy Endfield
Produced by Benjamin Fisz
Executive Producer: Earl St. John
Music by Philip Green
Cinematography by Reginald H. Wyer
Edited by Arthur Stevens
Also starring Victor McLaglen, Stanley Baker, Roger Delgado, Barry Foster, Richard Pearson, Gregoire Aslan and Luciana Paluzzi
Released by The Rank Organisation
Release Date: August 26th 1958
Running Time: 97 minutes
Location(s): Pinewood Studios, Girona and Bournemouth
Filming Dates: January 8th - April 3rd 1958
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DIRECTOR
Cy Endfield
(1914 - 1995)
Victor
McLaglen
(1886 - 1959)
Stanley
Baker
(1928 - 1976)
Luciana
Paluzzi
(1937 - )
Roger
Delgado
(1918 - 1973)
Another early effort in Robert's film career, this is a rather turgid action drama which never really gets off the ground.
Shaw is reasonably well featured as First Officer Gorman and he plays his scenes well, but the plot never really goes anywhere and largely focuses on a wholly inappropriate sub-plot involving a 72 year old McLaglen lusting after Paluzzi.
There are some pretty shots of the Spanish location and Baker and Paluzzi have good chemistry as their love affair blossoms, but the film limps to its dramatic conclusion as Baker and Shaw try to rescue a floundering freighter in the Bay of Biscay in a rather tepid denoument.
It's a rather dull affair to be honest and didn't really do much to advance Robert's film career.
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