Cast
- José Ferrer as Major Stringer
- Trevor Howard as Captain Hugh Thompson
- Dora Bryan as Myrtie
- Victor Maddern as Sergeant Craig
- Anthony Newley as Marine Clarke
- David Lodge as Marine Ruddock
- Peter Arne as Marine Stevens
- Percy Herbert as Marine Lomas
- Graham Stewart as Marine Booth
- John Fabian as Marine Cooney
- John Van Eyssen as Marine Bradley
- Robert Desmond as Marine Todd
- Walter Fitzgerald as the Gestapo commandant
- Karel Stepanek as Assistant Gestapo Officer
- Beatrice Campbell as Mrs. Ruddock
- Sydney Tafler as Policeman
- Gladys Henson as Barmaid
- Jacques B. Brunius as French Fisherman
- Andreas Malandrinos as French Fisherman
- Judith Furse as W.V.S. Woman Motorist
- Christopher Lee had a small role as the submarine commander
- Patric Doonan as Marine Claridge
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