Il cargo della violenza

Set in 1931 (hence the portrait of George V on captain Peter Finch's cabin wall) and made back in the days when Hugh Griffith was clean-shaven and Michael Craig playing rough trade.

Talky and studio-bound until it livens up at the end. The extensive matte work of the sea doubtless provided cameraman Geoffrey Unsworth's with useful experience of process work ten years later when he took on '2001'.

Meanwhile the arrival of the almost supernaturally lovely young Diane Cilento among all these men with already frayed nerves has tragically inevitable consequences.