Dangerous Voyage

Some great and quirky pictures of Shoreham harbour in the 1950's but the film itself lacked energy, interest and tension. The first half of the film was pleasant enough, with a English brother and sister played respectively by Vincent Ball and Naomi Chance, who together with pulp fiction crime writer Peter Duncan, played by William Lundigan, endeavour to solve a mystery of an abandoned boat which they wish to buy. Their quest to discover the owners of the boat leads them to the local police, and then after a tip off, they set off for France. It's all very improbable, and despite the quaint scenes of small French fishing ports, the film meanders along without any real action or purpose. The film limps along as our threesome go from one location to another in their search to resolve the mystery, which in itself becomes a tiresome and dull exercise. Overall it's a pedestrian film with a low key ending. The film can only be recommended for the quaint 1950's quayside locations, but otherwise not much else of note to see.

I thought the first half of this film was very good, an intriguing story about a recovered boat, a degree of intrigue as those involved visit Paris, then it all goes a little wrong when they introduce nuclear burns bur gamma days, it does become somewhat muddled.

The acting is good, Naomi Chance is excellent as Joan, she looks incredibly stylish, a look that somehow looks wonderfully modern. Vincent Ball is also good as John, not an actor I've seen much of, memorable for being the gym instructor in Carry on Cruising. William Lundigan does well with the scripture was given.

It's decent, but so disjointed.

A dull low budget time-filler in which crime writer William Lundigan seeks the whereabouts of two men who disappeared from a stricken boat as it was towed into harbour. All very English, despite its brief foray overseas.

This movie is virtually impossible to find a review on. I have many, many movie review books and I could not find a single review either under 'Terror Ship' or how it was presented when I viewed it on TV today; 'Dangerous Voyage'.

It is a pleasant time filler that had me guessing throughout. It involves a British brother and sister who run a holiday on boat business and a 'mysterious' American who is interested in purchasing a boat that the brother/sister towed back to harbour with a mystery surrounding it.

Performances are good throughout. It is definitely worth a look.

Vernon Sewell had already shot 'Ghost Ship' on his steam yacht, and whipped up another script using it as the backdrop for this routine but lively and good-looking mystery shot on attractive coastal locations on both sides of the Channel, embellished with bright sunny weather, a score by Allan Gray ('A Matter of Life and Death', 'The African Queen'), the staggeringly cool and glamorous Naomi Chance (who has the blonde good looks and elegant dress sense of a model, but unfortunately also acts like one) and an ingenious 'McGuffin'.