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Yangtse Incident DVD, 1957

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Film Description

A re-enactment of the events surrounding the voyage in April 1949 of the Royal Navy frigate Amethyst along the Yangtse river, and the attempts of its crew to get vital supplies to a British Embassy isolated in civil war-riven China.

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...

 

 

Film Information

Director - Michael Anderson

Produced - 1957

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - British Film

Cast - Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Keye Luke, Donald Houston

 

 

DVD Details

Certificate: PG Publisher: Optimum Releasing Region: 2
Length: 108 mins Cat No: OPTD1502  
Format: DVD B&W  

 

 

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