Landfall (1949)
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
- Date of release
- 1949-09-30
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- War, Drama
- Director
- Ken Annakin
Casting
- Michael Denison — Rick
- Patricia Plunkett — Mona
- Kathleen Harrison — Mona's Mother
- Maurice Denham — Wing Commander Hewitt
- Sebastian Shaw — Wing Commander Dickens
- Denis O'Dea — Captain Burnaby
- Laurence Harvey — PO Hooper
- David Tomlinson — Binks
- Joan Dowling — Miriam
- Joss Ackland — O'Neil
- Nora Swinburne — Admiral's Wife
- Charles Victor — Mona's Father
Interesting facts
- Based on: Landfall: A Channel Story
Landfall is a 1949 British war film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett and Kathleen Harrison. The screenplay was by Talbot Jennings from an adaptation by Gilbert Gunn and Anne Burnaby of the 1940 novel Landfall: A Channel Story by Nevil Shute.
Production
Landfall was one of two films Ken Annakin made on loan out from Gainsborough Pictures to Associated British, the other being Double Confession (1950). Annakin wrote "Neither had very good scripts, nor exciting casting... except for Peter Lorre" who was in Double Confession.
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