Seven Were Saved

Seven Were Saved (1947)

Daring men facing death over... Dangerous seas in a thrilling... Drama that will leave you breathless!

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.

Date of release
1947-03-28
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 13m
Genres
Drama, Adventure
Director
William H. Pine

Casting

Interesting facts

Seven Were Saved is a 1947 American adventure drama film directed by William H. Pine and starring Richard Denning, Catherine Craig and Russell Hayden. The film's opening title says: "This film is dedicated to the men of the AAF Air-sea rescue service, who risk their lives daily that others may live." Seven Were Saved was the first of a number of films that dramatized survival at sea after an aircraft crash.

Production

Seven were Saved was completed with the full cooperation of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Air Rescue Service. The technical advisor on the film was Capt Kenneth H. Brettman, USAAF. The Air Rescue Service was reorganized in March 1946 to become a division of the Air Transport Command. It was composed of several Air Rescue squadrons (ARS), each assigned to a specific geographical area.

The producers hired a skeleton crew to film background footage for six weeks at a government air field in Mississippi.

The aircraft in Seven Were Saved were Canadian Vickers OA-10A Canso, Boeing B-17H/SB-17G "Dumbo", Douglas C-47B Skytrain, Curtiss C-46 Commando and Douglas C-54 Skymaster.

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