Directed by:
Carol ReedScreenplay:
Carl ForemanCinematography:
Oswald MorrisComposer:
Malcolm ArnoldCast:
William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka, Kieron Moore, Bernard Lee, Bryan Forbes, Michael Caine, Carl Möhner, Rupert Davies, John Crawford (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
During World War II a tugboat captain falls in love with an immigrant girl, living in a British coastal town. He meets her through a system in which the key to her apartment is passed on to him by the previous lover, also a tugboat captain, when the latter knows death awaits him in the high seas. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
William Holden
USA
Best movies:
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Sophia Loren
Italy
Best movies:
A Special Day (1977)
Two Women (1960)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Trevor Howard
UK
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Gandhi (1982)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Oskar Homolka
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Ball of Fire (1941)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Woman Alone (1936)
Kieron Moore
Ireland
Best movies:
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Anna Karenina (1948)
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
Bernard Lee
UK
Best movies:
Goldfinger (1964)
The 3rd Man (1949)
The Detective (1954)
Bryan Forbes
UK
Best movies:
Man with a Million (1954)
King Rat (1965)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Michael Caine
UK
Best movies:
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)
The Prestige (2006)
Carl Möhner
Austria
Best movies:
Rififi (1955)
He Who Must Die (1957)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Rupert Davies
UK
Best movies:
Waterloo (1970)
Sapphire (1959)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
John Crawford
USA
Best movies:
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Big Heat (1953)
Robert Rietty
UK
Best movies:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Irene Handl
UK
Best movies:
Brief Encounter (1945)
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Stage Fright (1950)
Beatrix Lehmann
UK
Best movies:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
The Cat and the Canary (1978)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
Reg Thomason
UK
Best movies:
The Sign of Four (1983) (TV movie)
Battle of Britain (1969)
The One That Got Away (1957)
Aileen Lewis
UK
Best movies:
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
From Russia with Love (1963)
John Tatum
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Battle of Britain (1969)
Pauline Chamberlain
UK
Best movies:
Noel Purcell
UK
Best movies:
Lust for Life (1956)
Moby Dick (1956)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Russell Waters
UK
Best movies:
The Browning Version (1951)
The Great Manhunt (1950)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)