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During World War II, tugboats conduct what are called salvage missions, picking up disabled ships. Not well equipped with weaponry, the tugs are sitting ducks for enemy fire. As such, the crew working the tugs have precarious lives, many with deep seated emotional problems. Before the Americans join the war, ex-American military man David Ross is assigned to captain a tug for the British military. He is shown the ropes by an old friend, Captain Chris Ford. Chris currently shares a flat with a young beautiful Italian-Swiss woman named Stella, who came with the flat and who lives a reclusive life there. Chris is the latest in a long line of tugboat Captains who have lived there, each who has found another person to take over the flat and the associated looking after of Stella if anything is to happen to him. That person is given a key to the flat, the key only to be used if needed. The first in the series was Phillip Westerby, to whom Stella was to be married before Phillip was killed. Chris, who, in turn, now loves Stella and wants to marry her, asks David to be the next in line. David reluctantly agrees. As David learns the pressures associated with his work, he begins also to understand the emotional turmoil that Stella has gone through, which changes his opinion about "the key". Stellas view of the key also changes with David.
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. Hes given a key by a fellow tugboat man, a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
William Holden
Captain David Ross
Sophia Loren
Stella
Trevor Howard
Captain Chris Ford
Oskar Homolka
Captain Van Dam
Kieron Moore
Kane
Bernard Lee
Cmdr. Wadlow
Beatrix Lehmann
Housekeeper
Noel Purcell
Hotel Porter
Bryan Forbes
First Mate Weaver
Sidney Vivian
Grogan
Rupert Davies
Baker
Russell Waters
Sparks
Irene Handl
Clerk
John Crawford
American Captain
Jameson Clark
English Captain
Carl Möhner
Philip Westerby (in photo)
James Hayter
Locksmith
Sam Kydd
Sailor
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