The Seventh Survivor *** (1941, Linden Travers, Austin Trevor, John Stuart, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Jane Carr, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,156

The Seventh Survivor stars Linden Travers.

A WW2 passenger ship is torpedoed and six survivors plus the captain of the U-boat that sank the ship make it to a British lighthouse. One of the survivors is a German spy and another is a British agent, but who are they?

Director Leslie S Hiscott’s tense and teasing 1941 British WW2 black and white mystery drama The Seventh Survivor stars Linden Travers, Austin Trevor, John Stuart, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Jane Carr, and Felix Aylmer.

The Seventh Survivor is a wartime melodrama of six castaways who sail to safety in their lifeboat only to be trapped in a lighthouse with a suspected quisling in their midst.

Six survivors escape in a lifeboat from a torpedoed neutral passenger merchant ship on its way to Portugal, and pick up a seventh survivor, Captain Hartzmann (Austin Trevor), the German captain of the U-boat that sunk their ship. The survivors are rescued by the crew of a lighthouse and the German captain is held prisoner, but a spy among the survivors plans to help him to escape. So there is a German spy and a British agent in their midst, but who are they?

Also in the cast are Charles Goldner, Wally Patch, Ronald Shiner, Henry Oscar, and Ralph Truman.

The Seventh Survivor is directed by Leslie S Hiscott, runs 75 minutes, is made by British National Films and Shaftesbury Films, is released by Anglo-Amalgamated, is written by Michael Barringer (original story, screenplay and dialogue), and is shot in black and white by Basil Emmott (uncredited) and Laurie Friedman.

It was released on 5 January 1942 in the UK.

The cast are Austin Trevor as Captain Hartzmann, Linden Travers as Gillian Chase, John Stuart as Robert Cooper, Frank Pettingell as Thomas Pettifer, Martita Hunt as Mrs Lindley, Jane Carr as Diane Winters, Charles Goldner as Toni Anzoni, Wally Patch as Sutton, Ronald Shiner as Ernie, Felix Aylmer as Sir Elmer Norton, Henry Oscar as Goodenough, and Ralph Truman as Ship’s Captain.

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