Seven Were Saved
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 27, 2009
- Originally Released: 1945
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Denning, Richard Loo, Ann Doran & Russell Hayden | |
Directed by | William H. Pine |
Entertainment Reviews:
Description by OLDIES.com:
Reminiscent of Lifeboat, Hitchcock's 1944 classic, Seven Were Saved is a taut human drama with several surprising twists. Star Richard Denning is best remembered today for his roles in the 1950s sci-fi classics, Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Target Earth (1954), and The Day the World Ended (1955). He also garnered a fan following for playing Jerry North in the "Mr. And Mrs. North" TV series (1952-1954).
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Movie Lovers' Ratings & Reviews:
Based on 207 ratings.
If you're familar with Hitchcock's "Lifeboat", think of this as the Pacific version. Pretty well done. It's great seeing B17's and PBY's when they were still operational. And poor Richard Loo. He must have played the evil Japanese soldier a million times. He does it agin in this movie, with barely a line given to him, but he's the entire reason for the story.
"Seven Were Saved" is a treatment of a theme that has been familiar since at least John Ford's "The Lost Patrol" (1933), a miscellaneous collection of people thrown together by disaster or the fortunes of war, playing out their dramas in a trying situation that reveals their character or lack of the same. The situation will inevitably remind viewers of Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat," which had 96 minutes to develop its drama, whereas this movie has only 72. It says something for Maxwell Shane's fine screenplay and taut direction by William Pine, that this picture compares favorably with one of the screen's masterpieces, though Hitchcock, naturally, could (and did) develop more lines of conflict within the larger scope he had to work with. This movie made me want to see more pictures directed by Willim Pine (of Pine-Thomas Productions, a poverty row studio that kept Paramount supplied with outstanding second features). He was obviously adept at portraying men and women involved in war and dangerous civilian occupations.
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