Seven Were Saved (1947)

61% User Rating

1h 13min

"Daring men facing death over... Dangerous seas in a thrilling... Drama that will leave you breathless!"

A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.

William H. PineDirector

Cast

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Richard Denning

Capt Allen Danton

Catherine Craig

Susan Briscoe

Russell Hayden

Capt Jim Willis

Ann Doran

Mrs Rollin Hartley

Richard Loo

Colonel Yamura

Byron Barr

Lt. Martin Pinkert

Don Castle

Lt. Pete Sturdevant

George Tyne

Sgt. Blair

Keith Richards

Smith / Philip Thompson

John Eldredge

Rollin Hartley

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CinemaSerf

Rating 60%

July 7, 2022

A Japanese colonel being transported to face war crimes charges in the Philippines causes his transport plane to crash in the middle of the South China Sea and the survivors must battle each other and the elements whilst the air sea rescue service try to find them. At times there is a little jeopardy as they gradually run out of supplies and mishaps begin to befall their party, and tensions mount too as the pilot "Capt. Danton" (Richard Denning) insists that they share their meagre rations with their enemy but oddly enough the film is just too short to do the plot justice and the ending is really rather flat