Abandon Ship

Abandon Ship

100 mins | Drama, Adventure | March 12, 1957

After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.

Abandon Ship

100 mins | Drama, Adventure | March 12, 1957

Abandon Ship
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Columbia Pictures, Copa Productions
Original title Abandon Ship
Directors Betty Forster, Richard Sale, Basil Keys
Writers Richard Sale

Cast

Tyrone Power

as Alec Holmes

Mai Zetterling

as Nurse Julie White

Lloyd Nolan

as Frank Kelly

Stephen Boyd

as Will McKinley

Moira Lister

as Edith Middleton

James Hayter

as 'Cookie' Morrow

Marie Lohr

as Dorothy Knudson

Finlay Currie

as Mr. Wheaton

John Stratton

as Jimmy 'Sparks' Clary

Victor Maddern

as Willy Hawkins

Eddie Byrne

as Michael Faroni

Noel Willman

as Aubrey Clark

Moultrie Kelsall

as Daniel Cane

Gordon Jackson

as John Merritt

Orlando Martins

as Sam Holly

Ferdy Mayne

as Solly Daniels

Jill Melford

as Mrs. Kilgore

Clare Austin

as Ruth Spencer

Clive Morton

as George Kilgore

Danny Green

as Joe Woolsek

Laurence Naismith

as Captain Paul Darrow

Sheila Manahan

as Woman on Raft

John Gray

as Aussie 'Digger' Smith

David Barry

as Peter Kilgore

Austin Trevor

as Edward Wilton

Derek Sydney

as Mario Pasquale

Colin Broadley

as Mickey Stokes