Dangerous Voyage. Vernon Sewell, 1954.
When the Drews, a young yachting couple come across a struggling fishing boat in the English Channel they offer to tow the men back to shore. Despite clearly seeing two men on deck during the journey back, upon reaching the port they are baffled to find no one aboard. Adding to the mystery none of the official documents that should be on the boat are present and there is in fact literally nothing but a single solitary mens shoe aboard. Thus obtaining a salvage right to the boat the couple are eager to offload the vessel when a vacationing American takes an interest. Unfortunately police procedure means things are held up until more facts are established regarding the boats origins, ownership or destination. From here things get more mysterious for the Drews, Mrs Drew in particular when our mysterious American friend finds a metal plate on board indicating at least the builders of the boat and then stumps up the cash to go trekking around France tracing the owners of the vessel. I won't say anymore for fear of ruining the plot suffice to say this is a nice little British mystery from Vernon Sewell.
Acting is spot on all around and a few sequences are suitably sinister plus the film appears to have had a decent budget for the time.
I picked it up for £4 in the Network sale though even at the full price of six pound something you could do a lot worse. Oh and as usual for Network the print is excellent.
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