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A research scientist achieves the heights of bravery after intense depression with a deformed foot and a quarrel by dismantling a complicated unexploded bomb.

Cast & credits

Cast

Sammy Rice David Farrar
Susan Kathleen Byron
R.B. Waring Jack Hawkins
Colonel A.K. Holland Leslie Banks
Captain Stuart Michael Gough
Corporal Taylor Cyril Cusack
Professor Mair Milton Rosmer
Brine Walter Fitzgerald
Joe Emrys Jones
Till Michael Goodliffe
ATS corporal Renée Asherson
Colonel Strang Anthony Bushell
Sergeant-Major Rose Henry Caine
Gladwin Elwyn Brook-Jones
brigadier James Dale
Crowhurst Sam Kydd
Gillian June Elvin
Norval David Hutcheson
Knucksie Sidney James
Pearson Roderick Lovell
Sergeant Groves James Carney
Welsh doctor Roddy Hughes
Pinker Geoffrey Keen
Petersen, dying gunner Bryan Forbes
Minister Robert Morley
[gunnery officer] Michael Powell

Credits

Direction

Director Michael Powell
Director Emeric Pressburger
Assistant Director Sydney S. Streeter
[Assistant Director (2nd)] Archie Knowles
[Assistant Director (3rd)] Jack Green
Continuity Doreen North

Production

Production Company Archers Film Productions
Production Company London Film Productions
[Production Company] British Lion Film Corporation
Producer Michael Powell
Producer Emeric Pressburger
Assistant Producer George R. Busby
[Associate Producer] Anthony Bushell
[Production Assistant] Charles Orme
[Production Secretary] Gwladys Jenks
[Production Department Secretary] Marjorie Mein
[Studio] Worton Hall Studios

Casting

[Casting] Madeleine Godar

Writing

Written by Michael Powell
Written by Emeric Pressburger
Based on the novel by Nigel Balchin

Photography

Director of Photography Christopher Challis
Camera Operator Freddie Francis
[Focus Puller] Will Lee
[Clapper Loader] John von Kotze

Stills

[Stills] Anthony Hopking

Editing

Supervising Editor Reginald Mills
Editor Cliff Turner
[Assistant Cutter] Tom Simpson
[Junior Cutter] Frankie Taylor
Assistant Editor Derek Armstrong

Design

Production Designer Hein Heckroth
Art Director John Hoesli
[Assistant Art Director] Ivor Beddoes
[Set Dresser] Dario Simoni
[Chief Draughtsman] Wallis Smith
[Draughtsman] Ted Clements
[Draughtsman] Harry Pottle
[Junior Draughtsman] Pat Sladden
[Junior Draughtsman] Peter Childs
[Production Buyer] Charles Townsend

Costumes

Dress Designer Josephine Boss
[Wardrobe Master] Jack Dalmayne
[Wardrobe Assistant] Arthur Skinner
[Wardrobe Assistant] May Walding

Make-up

[Make-up Supervisor] Dorrie Hamilton
[Make-up Assistant] Peter Evans
[Hairdresser] Constance Pyne
[Assistant Hairdresser] Iris Tilley

Music

Incidental Music Brian Easdale
Night Club Scene Music Ted Heath's Kenny Baker Swing Group
Night Club Scene Music Fred Lewis

Sound

sd Alan Allen
[Sound Maintenance] George Stephenson
[Boom Operator] Peter Butcher
[Assistant Boom Operator] Peter Meyers
Dubbing W.H.O. Sweeny
[Sound Editor] Cyril Swern

Publicity

[Publicity] Vivienne Knight
[Publicity Assistant] Jean Osborne