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[1]
Release dates
  • 21 February 1950 (1950-02-21) (UK)
  • 3 November 1950 (1950-11-03) (AUS[1])
  • 13 January 1951 (1951-01-13) (US)
Running time
102 min[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£105,000[3] or £127,500[4][5]
Box office£190,000[6]

Morning Departure (released as Operation Disaster in the United States[7]) 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 is based on a stage play of the same name by Kenneth Woollard, which had also been shown as a live TV play by the BBC both in 1946[8] and 1948.[9]

  1. ^ a b John Howard Reid: Success in the Cinema – Money-Making Movies and Critics' Choices (2006), pages 195–196 Retrieved 24 November 2012
  2. ^ BBFC: Morning Departure – running time Retrieved 24 November 2012
  3. ^ "THE STARRY WAY". The Courier-mail. No. 4075. Queensland, Australia. 17 December 1949. p. 2. Retrieved 24 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (2003). British Cinema of The 1950s The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press USA. p. 15.
  5. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 102.
  6. ^ Chapman p 102.Income is producer's share of receipts.
  7. ^ IMDb: Operation Disaster – release dates Retrieved 24 November 2012
  8. ^ BFI Database: Morning Departure (1946) Retrieved 24 November 2012
  9. ^ BFI Database: Morning Departure (1948) Retrieved 24 November 2012