HMS Amethyst is on a peaceful mission up the Yangtse delivering supplies when she is attacked by communist shore batteries and twenty-two British sailors are killed and the ship's bridge destroyed. The only way out for the survivors is to run a one hundred and forty mile gauntlet of hostility... cast: Richard Todd .... LtCdr Kerans RN William Hartnell .... Ldg Smn Frank Akim Tamiroff .... Colonel Peng Donald Houston .... Lt Weston RN Keye Luke .... Capt. Kuo Tai Sophie Stewart .... Miss Charlotte Dunlap Robert Urquhart .... Flt Lt Fearnley RAF James Kenney .... Lt Hett RN Richard Leach .... Lt Strain RN. Runtime: 88 min Country: UK Language: English Black and White Also Known As: Battle Hell (1957) (USA) Escape of the Amethyst (1957) Their Greatest Glory (1957) Yangtze Incident (1957)
