Yangtse Incident is a solid but unspectacular movie let down by stereotypical characters that never feel real.
The movie is based on a true incident. On 1949 the HMS Amethyst was sailing along the Yangtze river to Nanking and came under unprovoked fire from the Chinese communists.
The ship is damaged and grounded on mud banks. With the captain dead, a rescue ship under fire. The crew are abandoned with Lieutenant Commander John Kerans (Richard Todd) taking control of the ship and crew.
Kerans finds himself trying to negotiate with Colonel Peng (Akim Tamiroff) who is using the incident for propaganda purposes. Get the crew to admit that the ship fired on the Chinese first.
Seeing no way out, Kerans needs to find a way to escape from the Chinese.
The movie tries too hard to be a docu-drama until realising that it needed to be peppered with some action.
There is a great cast of rising stars ranging from Bernard Cribbins, Barry Foster, Ian Bannen, Alfred Burke.
William Hartnell seems to fair the best as the seaman who had to pretend to be an officer when going to meet Peng.
The movie is based on a true incident. On 1949 the HMS Amethyst was sailing along the Yangtze river to Nanking and came under unprovoked fire from the Chinese communists.
The ship is damaged and grounded on mud banks. With the captain dead, a rescue ship under fire. The crew are abandoned with Lieutenant Commander John Kerans (Richard Todd) taking control of the ship and crew.
Kerans finds himself trying to negotiate with Colonel Peng (Akim Tamiroff) who is using the incident for propaganda purposes. Get the crew to admit that the ship fired on the Chinese first.
Seeing no way out, Kerans needs to find a way to escape from the Chinese.
The movie tries too hard to be a docu-drama until realising that it needed to be peppered with some action.
There is a great cast of rising stars ranging from Bernard Cribbins, Barry Foster, Ian Bannen, Alfred Burke.
William Hartnell seems to fair the best as the seaman who had to pretend to be an officer when going to meet Peng.