well make faux hemingway with gregory peck reprise his neurotic pilot from 12 oclock high and but in a mostly british production while the other american involve be robert parrish who smartly helm . brooding over his wife death in the blitz and peck find something to live for in a young burmese beauty . then a routine flight go awry and he land in japanese territory with two men to save . geoffrey unsworth provide rivet technicolor image to go with the painterly action effect work and wonderfully different than the hollywood norm at the time . and there solid support from bernard lee and maurice denham and lyndon brook and a beauteous win min than in her one and only film appearance . a a scottish missionary brenda de banzie be over the top and but the film need the bit of applied zest she provide .