A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Gary Cooper
as Gideon Patch
Charlton Heston
as John Sands
Michael Redgrave
as Mr. Nyland
Virginia McKenna
as Janet Taggart
Richard Harris
as Higgins
Emlyn Williams
as Sir Wilfred Falcett
Alexander Knox
as Petrie
Cecil Parker
as Inquiry Chairman
Ben Wright
as Mike Duncan
Peter Illing
as Gunderson
John Le Mesurier
as Attorney
Noel Drayton
as Charlie Bell
