Seven Were Saved

28/3/1947 1h 13m 6.1/10

Overview

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.

Director

William H. Pine

Top Billed Cast

Richard Loo

Colonel Yamura

Ann Doran

Mrs Rollin Hartley

Richard Denning

Capt Allen Danton

Byron Barr

Lt. Martin Pinkert

Russell Hayden

Capt Jim Willis

Catherine Craig

Susan Briscoe

Reviews

CinemaSerf

7/7/2022

6/10

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