Flight from Ashiya (1963)
Director: Michael Anderson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Tepid adventure movie, with an American Air-Sea Rescue Service team flying to save the crew of a ship sunk off the Japanese coast in a typhoon. The lumbering action scenes are further deflated by flashbacks to previous disasters the heroes have experienced; and Anderson, master of the overblown twaddle-movie (Around the World in 80 Days, Logan's Run), miraculously even manages to waste the photographic talents of Burnett Guffey and Joe MacDonald.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Anderson
Producer: Harold Hecht
Cast: Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker, Shirley Knight, Danièle Gaubert, Eiko Taki full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 102 mins
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