SOS Pacific – 1959 | 90 mins | Drama | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Melodramatic disater moviethat piles on the pressure thanksto vivid characterisations from an exceptionally strong cast led by Richard Attenborough. Director Guy Green sustains the tension remarkably well as he heaps onepossible disaster on top of another, allowing himself to gloss over a weak scriptfull of holes and unlikely coincidences. Attenborough sketches another memorablecharacter as informer Whitey, and is solidly supported by Pier Angeli and EddieConstantine.

On a small Pacific island, petty crook Whitey Mullen(Richard Attenborough) and small-time smuggler Mark Reisner (Eddie Constantine)join a passenger sea-plane captained by hard-drinking John ‘Jack’ Bennett.Whitey is taking the plane to give evidence against fellow-passenger Reisner,who is in police custody and accompanied by a customs officer. The planestrikes trouble once airborne as it is blighted by electronics problems and anelectrical storm that forces them to land on a deserted island. Their reliefsoon turns to shock when they discover they’ve landed on an island adjoiningthe site of an imminent H-bomb test.