After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
Tyrone Power
as Alec Holmes
Mai Zetterling
as Nurse Julie White
Lloyd Nolan
as Frank Kelly
Stephen Boyd
as Will McKinley
Moira Lister
as Edith Middleton
James Hayter
as 'Cookie' Morrow
Marie Lohr
as Dorothy Knudson
Finlay Currie
as Mr. Wheaton
John Stratton
as Jimmy 'Sparks' Clary
Victor Maddern
as Willy Hawkins
Eddie Byrne
as Michael Faroni
Noel Willman
as Aubrey Clark
