***SPOILERS*** What can truly be said to be a re-make, three years later, of the Alfred Hitchcock lost at sea thriller "Lifeboat" the film "Seven Were Saved" has a number of American service men & women stranded on a life raft in the middle of the South China Sea due to the treachery of a Japanese POW Col. Yamura played by Chinese/American actor Richard Loo a veteran in playing Japanese bad guys in movies during WWII. It was Col. Yamura who on his way to Manila to be tried as a war criminal who hijacked the plane and, in a kamikaze like swan dive, crashed it into the sea with all aboard!
In the middle of nowhere and with no help in sight the plane's captain Allen Denton,Richard Denning, takes command of the life raft guiding it, by following the stars, to the safety of the nearest land mass or island that could well be as far as 800 miles away. As for that suicidal creep Col. Yamura, he was lucky that, unlike U-boat Captain Schmit in the movie "Lifeboat", he wasn't lynched and thrown overboard, as shark bait,by the enraged plane crash survivors! We also have the story of US Navy nurse Susan Briscoe, Catherine Craig, who's believe to be dead, shot by the Japs in WWII, husband Philip Smith, Keith Richards, who had since lost his memory due to malaria is also, small world isn't it, one of the plane passenger on his way home to be treated in a US military hospital.
****SPOILERS****Life saving ending with Susan's boyfriend and future husband Capt. Jim Willis,Russell Hayden, suffering from a high fever sneaking out of the hospital and without the proper papers taking command of the rescue crew in finding the life raft with all those on board. As if by extrasensory perception Wills does contacts the life raft and in the end saves Susan and the all it's surviving members including the ungrateful, in not being killed on the spot, Col.Namura who's well on his way to be executed, after being found guilty, in Malia as war major war criminal. As for both Susan and Captain Willis they don't have to worry about Susan's known to be dead husband Philip Smith standing in the way of their marriage! In a supreme act of self sacrifice he earlier committed suicide by jumping overboard after his memory came back and he found out he'll, in being legally married to Susan, prevent the marriage, as well as committing an act of bigamy, from happening!
In the middle of nowhere and with no help in sight the plane's captain Allen Denton,Richard Denning, takes command of the life raft guiding it, by following the stars, to the safety of the nearest land mass or island that could well be as far as 800 miles away. As for that suicidal creep Col. Yamura, he was lucky that, unlike U-boat Captain Schmit in the movie "Lifeboat", he wasn't lynched and thrown overboard, as shark bait,by the enraged plane crash survivors! We also have the story of US Navy nurse Susan Briscoe, Catherine Craig, who's believe to be dead, shot by the Japs in WWII, husband Philip Smith, Keith Richards, who had since lost his memory due to malaria is also, small world isn't it, one of the plane passenger on his way home to be treated in a US military hospital.
****SPOILERS****Life saving ending with Susan's boyfriend and future husband Capt. Jim Willis,Russell Hayden, suffering from a high fever sneaking out of the hospital and without the proper papers taking command of the rescue crew in finding the life raft with all those on board. As if by extrasensory perception Wills does contacts the life raft and in the end saves Susan and the all it's surviving members including the ungrateful, in not being killed on the spot, Col.Namura who's well on his way to be executed, after being found guilty, in Malia as war major war criminal. As for both Susan and Captain Willis they don't have to worry about Susan's known to be dead husband Philip Smith standing in the way of their marriage! In a supreme act of self sacrifice he earlier committed suicide by jumping overboard after his memory came back and he found out he'll, in being legally married to Susan, prevent the marriage, as well as committing an act of bigamy, from happening!