Yangtse Incident (1957)
(Battle Hell)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 113m
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston
Synopsis:
A British warship draws hostile fire from shore batteries when it attempts to sail down the river Yangtse during the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Review:
Pretty compelling exposé of a tense international incident: stiff upper lips all round, but alas a limited sense of reality, being shot on the Orwell outside Ipswich.
(Battle Hell)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 113m
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston
Synopsis:
A British warship draws hostile fire from shore batteries when it attempts to sail down the river Yangtse during the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Review:
Pretty compelling exposé of a tense international incident: stiff upper lips all round, but alas a limited sense of reality, being shot on the Orwell outside Ipswich.
(Battle Hell)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 113m
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston
Synopsis:
A British warship draws hostile fire from shore batteries when it attempts to sail down the river Yangtse during the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Review:
Pretty compelling exposé of a tense international incident: stiff upper lips all round, but alas a limited sense of reality, being shot on the Orwell outside Ipswich.