During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Michael Redgrave
as Air Commodore Waltby
Dirk Bogarde
as Flt Sgt Mackay
Jack Watling
as Flying Officer Harding
Bonar Colleano
as Sgt Kirby
Anthony Steel
as Flying Officer Treherne
Nigel Patrick
as Flt Sgt Slingsby
James Kenney
as Cpl. Skinner
Sydney Tafler
as Cpl. Robb
Griffith Jones
as Group Capt. Todd
Guy Middleton
as Squadron Leader Scott
Rachel Kempson
as Mrs. Waltby
Joan Sims
as Hilda Tebbitt
