Flight from Ashiya
1964 film by Michael Anderson / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flight from Ashiya (aka Ashiya Kara no hiko) is a 1964 film about the U.S. Air Force's Air Rescue Service, flying from Ashiya Air Base, Japan. In this American-Japanese co-production film set in the early 1960s, a flight crew's mission is to rescue a liferaft of Japanese civilians stranded in rough seas.[3] The film was based on the 1956 novel Rescue! by Elliott Arnold (repressed as Flight from Ashiya in 1959). It was released in Japan as Ashiya Kara no hiko.[4]
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Flight from Ashiya | |
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Directed by | Michael Anderson |
Written by | Elliott Arnold (novel) Waldo Salt |
Produced by | Harold Hecht |
Starring | Yul Brynner Richard Widmark George Chakiris Suzy Parker Shirley Knight Danièle Gaubert Eiko Taki Joseph Di Reda Mitsuhiro Sugiyama E.S. Ince Andrew Hughes |
Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald, ASC Burnett Guffey, ASC |
Edited by | Gordon Pilkington |
Music by | Frank Cordell |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Countries | Japan United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.3 million [1][N 1] |
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