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)