Flight From Ashiya
– Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air F..
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for their location, the film flashes back to chronicle the pasts of each pilot to make clear their mixed feelings about their upcoming assignment.
25 Mar 1964
English
Michael Anderson
Elliott Arnold (novel), Elliott Arnold, Waldo Salt
Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker
Flight from Ashiya is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying out of Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this fictionalized film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a life raft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas. The Airplane used in the film was the HU-16 Albatross, A flying boat.
United Artists