Walter Slezak

When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser 'Jonesey' fears his life is in danger from a gold-smuggling gang whom he double-crossed on a previous trip. So begins a day of chilling suspense, as he and other crew members find themselves embroiled in a desperate race to get out of the country alive.

Alfred Hitchcock's World War II thriller, set entirely on a lifeboat, where survivors of a sunken vessel try to stay alive while stranded in open water.