MALTA STORY (1953) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Brian Desmond Hurst
Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel,
Muriel Pavlow, Flora Robson, Renée Asherson,
Ralph Truman, Nigel Stock, Gordon Jackson
In 1942, an RAF reconnaissance pilot on route to Cairo gets stranded in Malta, where the siege is going on and the local commander has him reassigned and puts him to work. Efficient storytelling. Exciting aerial combat scenes. Stiff upper lips all around.
