Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
Genre: War
Director: Michael Anderson
Actors: Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston, Keye Luke, Richard Todd, Sophie Stewart, William Hartnell
Country: United Kingdom
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