The Sea Shall Not Have Them [VHS] [1954]

A classic B&W war movie with a great cast following on search and rescue mission for a downed air crew in the North Sea. I think this is the only movie filmed about the RAF launches and well worth watching. Ten years later it would have become a tv series like the Aussies did with "Patrol Boat" and "Sea Patrol."Really glad to see this on Amazon Prime - it reminded me of the Sunday afternoon movies we watched as children during the early 70s.

This is a review of the Blu Ray quality of the film, more than the film itself. The film is one of the best to come out of the 1950' s era, with a superb British cast,and great seascape scenes of the drama in hand, which is very realistic.Under the auspices of the B.F.I. this is a restored, Blu Ray issue. The print is not very sharp, so with the grain as well, it makes the print a bit muddy. The film story is set in dark, stormy, rainy scenes which also doesn't help with the picture viewing.Collecting the Network, issues of DVD films of 1930's, 1940's 1950's spoils one, as their issues are exemplary,since they go back to the original elements, but of course it all depends how old films have survived in the storage vaults.I am however, glad I bought this as it's a part of the Great British Film Industry Entertainment, when I used to go to the Cinema as a boy and young man during this time.This issue is still worth having in ones collection.

This was a film that I saw many years ago and was also in the RAF at that time was somewhat relevant to the story.The quality of the picture was good but the old square framing (which could not be avoided) tended to spoil the image. Overall I was very satisfied with the product.

I have not seen this film for years, So I wasn't disappointed it's a very good film & a who's who in British films made at that time 1954 Redgrave, Steel,Bogarde etc I was looking forward the Blu-ray version as well & thats where I was disappointed it has not been restored or cleaned up so the Blu-ray high lights this there are two scenes where it's so distracting all the grain etc, This has been issued through the BFI so why have they left it like this such a shame put this against The Cruel Sea Blu-ray near perfect, I might buy the dvd version that says it has been restored if I do I hope it's a better picture than the Blu-ray version so hence four stars.

Set during the final winter of WWII this film tells the story of the crew of an RAF bomber and their VIP passenger who are forced to take to a life raft after being shot down by a German fighter close to the enemy occupied coast. With bad weather forecast for the Channel and North Sea it becomes a race against time and the elements for an RAF air-sea rescue launch to find and rescue them. With the wind and tide moving the life raft ever closer to the enemy coast their chances of rescue fade as they drift into a minefield and ever closer to the enemy shore batteries.With a superb cast and starring Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde and Anthony Steel this is a good story well told. Being filmed in black and white was a masterstroke, as the story unfolded I began to feel as cold as the crew of that life raft. This is British made cinema at its best and I can highly recommend it.

This is a typically understated but highly watchable British war movie with an unusual theme, a story centred on the exploits of an air/sea rescue launch. The story-line is highly plausible, and incorporates a good mix of suspense, human interest and lighter hearted moments performed by an excellent cast made up of stars like Michael Redgrave, Anthony Steele, Dirk Bogarde and Nigel Patrick and a whole host of instantly recognisable but lesser known actors of the 1950's/60's. There is of course the obligatory appearance of Anton Diffring as the German. To me, as a youngster, this was one of the 'stand out' war films of that era and it was great to be able to see it again. (I believe it has only become available on DVD relatively recently)

A good story of the flyers in ww2 downed into the sea in a dinghy. The fast boats who try to find them as the dinghy drifts ever nearer to enemy held beaches, plus a minefield. The actors were good but if I'm honest it didn't grip me as so many other ww2 films have. Saying that this was based on what did become of flyers in the war who found themselves in the sea, not many survived & were not found by the boats whose mission was to save them.

A good story, with a cast of many leading UK actors of 1950s.