Cast
- John Gregson as Captain Frederick "Hookie" Bell, HMS Exeter
- Anthony Quayle as Commodore Henry Harwood, HMS Ajax
- Ian Hunter as Captain Charles Woodhouse, HMS Ajax
- Jack Gwillim as Captain Edward Parry, HMS Achilles
- Bernard Lee as Captain Patrick Dove, MS Africa Shell
- Peter Finch as Captain Hans Langsdorff, Admiral Graf Spee
- Lionel Murton as Mike Fowler, American radio reporter in Montevideo
- Anthony Bushell as Eugen Millington-Drake, the British Minister in Uruguay
- Peter Illing as Dr Alberto Guani, Uruguayan Foreign Minister
- Michael Goodliffe as Captain Henry McCall, British Naval Attaché in Buenos Aires
- Patrick Macnee as Lieutenant Commander Ralph Medley, HMS Ajax
- John Chandos as Dr Otto Langmann, the German Minister in Uruguay
- Douglas Wilmer as M. Desmoulins, the French Minister in Uruguay
- William Squire as Ray Martin, British SIS agent in Montevideo
- Roger Delgado as Captain Varela, Uruguyan Navy
- Andrew Cruickshank as Captain William Stubbs, SS Doric Star
- John Le Mesurier as the Chaplain of HMS Exeter
- Christopher Lee as Manolo, bar owner in Montevideo harbour
- Edward Atienza as Pop, Mike Fowler's gaucho assistant
- April Olrich as Dolores (singing voice by Muriel Smith)
- Peter Dyneley as Captain John Robison, SS Newton Beech (uncredited)
- Cast notes
- Future director John Schlesinger has a small part as a prisoner on board the Graf Spee, as does Captain Patrick Dove of Africa Shell, who is himself portrayed by Bernard Lee.
- Anthony Newley and Donald Moffat have small parts as a radio operator and a lookout. Moffat was making his film debut, as was Jack Gwillim.
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