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1957

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HMS Amethyst is on a peaceful mission up the Yangtse delivering supplies when she is attacked by communist shore batteries and twenty-two British sailors are killed and the ship's bridge destroyed. The only way out for the survivors is to run a one hundred and forty mile gauntlet of hostility. Read more

Starring	Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston
Director	Michael Anderson
Genres	Drama

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Yangtse Incident

Starring	Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston, Keye Luke
Director	Michael Anderson
Studio	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1957 To Rent: DVD: 16 Mar 2009

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- This well-worn '50s actioner of the stiff-upper-lip school has Richard Todd as the Lt Commander of HMS Amethyst, a... read more on Time Out
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  Good period drama!
  
  Interesting account of the Yangste incident, when a British warship was attacked by Chinese communist forces at the end of World War II. The film is quite old-... read more »
  
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  excellent old film and the acting well done i like it well worth another watch it was either fight and get out alive or give up and be sunk and richard todd ... read more »
  
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  Yangtse Incident
  
  This is an excellent British war film, with a wealth of famous British stars.
  
  It is the story of HMS Amethyst on a mercy mission during the Chinese ... read more »
  
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  You cannot beat the old classics, I wish i could think of more to order.Special effects are all very well, but give me the old ways anytime
  
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  HMS Amethyst is on a peaceful mission up the Yangtse delivering supplies when she is attacked by communist shore batteries and twenty-two British sailors are killed and the ship's bridge destroyed. The only way out for the survivors is to run a one hundred and forty mile gauntlet of hostility....