Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
- sea
- ambush
- secret mission
- world war ii
- based on true story
- sinking ship
- 1940s
- british intelligence
- geriatric
- old men
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gregory Peck
Col. Lewis Pugh
Roger Moore
Capt. Gavin Stewart
David Niven
Col. W.H. Grice
Trevor Howard
Jack Cartwright
- Barbara Kellerman — Mrs. Cromwell
- Patrick Macnee — Major 'Yogi' Crossley
- Kenneth Griffith — Charlie Wilton
- Patrick Allen — Colin Mackenzie
- Wolf Kahler — Trompeta
- Robert Hoffmann — U-Boat Captain
- Dan van Husen — U-Boat First Officer
- George Mikell — Captain of Ehrenfels
- Jürgen Andersen — First Officer of Ehrenfels
- Bernard Archard — Underhill
- Martin Benson — Mr. Montero
- Directed
- Andrew V. McLaglen
- Written
- James Leasor, Reginald Rose
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 108 ratings
- Studio
- Richmond Light Horse Productions, Varius Entertainment Trading A.G., Lorimar Motion Pictures
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