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Abandon Ship ()

Seven Waves Away (original title)
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A ship's officer finds himself in command of a lifeboat full of survivors of a sunken luxury liner.
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Alec Holmes
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Nurse Julie White
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Frank Kelly
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Will McKinley
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Edith Middleton
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'Cookie' Morrow
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Dorothy Knudson
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Mr. Wheaton
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Jimmy 'Sparks' Clary
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Willy Hawkins
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Michael Faroni
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Aubrey Clark
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Daniel Cane
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Arthur J. Middleton
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John Merritt
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Maj. Gen. Barrington
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John Hayden
Ralph Michael ...
George Kilgore
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Sam Holly
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Joe Woolsek
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Captain Paul Darrow
Sheila Manahan ...
Woman on Raft
Clare Austin ...
Ruth Spencer
Jill Melford ...
Mrs. Kilgore
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Solly Daniels
John Gray ...
Aussie 'Digger' Smith
David Barry ...
Peter Kilgore (as Meurig Wyn-Jones)
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Edward Wilton
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Mario Pasquale
Colin Broadley ...
Mickey Stokes

Directed by

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Richard Sale

Written by

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Richard Sale ... (written by)

Produced by

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Tyrone Power ... producer (uncredited)
Ted Richmond ... executive producer
John R. Sloan ... producer

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Arthur Bliss ... (as Sir Arthur Bliss)

Cinematography by

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Wilkie Cooper ... director of photography

Editing by

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Raymond Poulton

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Valerie Leslie ... assembly cutter
Karen Heward ... second assistant editor (uncredited)
Peter Keen ... first assistant editor (uncredited)

Casting By

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Paul Sheridan

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Wilfred Shingleton

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Ray Simm ... (as Raymond Sim)

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Joan Smallwood ... hairdresser
Neville Smallwood ... makeup artist

Production Management

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R.L.M. Davidson ... production manager

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Basil Keys ... assistant director
Gus Angus ... third assistant director (uncredited)
David Bracknell ... third assistant director (uncredited)
Peter Crowhurst ... first assistant director: second unit (uncredited)
David Eady ... second unit director (uncredited)
William Hill ... second assistant director (uncredited)
Bert Pearl ... second assistant director (uncredited)

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Basil Mannin ... scenic artist
John Mackey ... scenic artist (uncredited)
Ted Samuels ... scenic artist (uncredited)
Frank Willson ... assistant art director (uncredited)
Gilbert Wood ... scenic artist (uncredited)

Sound Department

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John Cox ... sound supervisor
Red Law ... sound recordist
Winston Ryder ... sound editor
Bill Salter ... sound recordist (as W.S. Salter)
Paddy Cunningham ... dubbing crew (uncredited)
Claude Hitchcock ... boom operator (uncredited)
Peter Musgrave ... assistant dubbing editor (uncredited)
Harry Tate ... sound camera operator (uncredited)
Charles Wheeler ... boom operator (uncredited)
George Widdows ... sound maintenance (uncredited)

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Wally Veevers ... special effects

Camera and Electrical Department

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Eric Gray ... stills cameraman
Ronnie Taylor ... camera operator
Ronald Etherington ... clapper loader (uncredited)
Arthur Evans ... still photographer (uncredited)
Maurice Gillett ... supervising electrician (uncredited)
David Griffiths ... clapper loader (uncredited)
Marc Hyams ... focus puller (uncredited)
Skeets Kelly ... camera operator: second unit (uncredited)
Michael Wilson ... focus puller (uncredited)

Location Management

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Martin C. Schute ... location manager (as Martin Schute)

Music Department

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Muir Mathieson ... conductor

Script and Continuity Department

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Betty Forster ... continuity

Additional Crew

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Inez Easton ... production secretary (uncredited)
Catherine O'Brien ... publicity director (uncredited)
Crew believed to be complete

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Plot Summary

After their luxury liner is sunk, a group of over twenty survivors take refuge in a life boat made for only nine. Included in the group are an old opera singer, a nuclear physicist, his wife and child, a General, a playwright and his dog, a college professor, a gambler and his mistress, the ship's nurse, and several members of the crew, including the Captain and executive officer. Soon, the captain dies from his injuries. The executive officer must take charge, and as a hurricane approaches, and their food and water run out, he must decide who to put over the side, and who stays and gets a chance at survival. Written by Mike Hatchett

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Taglines 14 of these survivors must be cast adrift! Which will the Captain choose? See more »
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Also Known As
  • Abandon Ship! (United States)
  • Seven Days from Now (United States)
  • Seven Seas Away (United States)
  • Abandon Ship (United States)
  • Abandon Ship (Canada, English title)
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Trivia This movie is based on the real event of the William Brown, an American ship that sank in 1841, taking with her 31 passengers. A further 16 passengers were forced out of an overloaded lifeboat before the survivors were rescued. The survivors were picked up by the American ship Crescent, the same name of the liner that sinks in this movie. See more »
Goofs The boat used in long shots and the one in close-ups are obviously different. See more »
Movie Connections Remade as The Last Survivors (1975). See more »
Quotes Announcer: [closing lines] The story which you have just seen is a true one. In real life Captain Alexander Holmes was brought to trial on a charge of murder. He was convicted and given the minimum sentence of six months because of the unusual circumstances surrounding the incident. If you had been a member of the jury, how would you have voted: guilty or innocent?
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