
The Devil at 4 O'Clock(1961)
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.

A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On the island they find a fleet of derelict ships, farm animals tethered, and cameras in a lead-lined bunker and a stark realisation soon dawns.

Richard Attenborough
Whitey Mullen

Pier Angeli
Teresa

John Gregson
Captain John 'Jack' Bennett

Eva Bartok
Maria

Eddie Constantine
Mark

Gunnar Möller
Dr. Strauss

Jean Anderson
Miss Shaw

Cec Linder
Willy

Clifford Evans
Petersen

Harold Kasket
Monk
SOS Pacific is a adventure, drama, thriller film released in 1959. Directed by Guy Green, it stars Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson. A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicist, and a globe-hopping good-time girl. On the island they find a fleet of derelict ships, farm animals tethered, and cameras in a lead-lined bunker and a stark realisation soon dawns.
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