Morning Departure

Morning Departure
Theatrical poster
Directed byRoy Ward Baker
Screenplay byW.E. Fairchild
Based onthe stage play Morning Departure
by Kenneth Woollard
Produced byJay Lewis
StarringJohn Mills
Richard Attenborough
Bernard Lee
Kenneth More
Nigel Patrick
George Cole
CinematographyDesmond Dickinson
Edited byAlan Osbiston
Production
company
Jay Lewis Productions
Distributed byGFD
Release dates
  • 21 February 1950 (1950-02-21) (UK)
  • 3 November 1950 (1950-11-03) (AUS)
  • 13 January 1951 (1951-01-13) (US)
Running time
102 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£105,000 or £127,500
Box office£190,000

Morning Departure (released as Operation Disaster in the United States) is a 1950 British naval drama film about life aboard a sunken submarine, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough. It was written by W.E. Fairchild based on the 1940 stage play of the same name by Kenneth Woollard, which had also been shown as a live TV play by the BBC in 1946 and 1948.

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