This isn't so much a movie as a benefit for a crew of ho hum British actors who staffed between them 90% of the quota quickies of the time; Cyril Cusack, Duncan Lamont, Brian Forbes, Hugh Griffith, Anthony Steel, Gordon Jackson, Sam Kydd, Geoffrey Keen, Martin Benson, the list goes on. Interestingly both the leads, Peter Finch and Diane Cilento, were Australians who made careers in British films, with Cilento the sole woman in the cast, a governess stranded in South America who needs a passage back to the UK and finds it on the cargo steamer (cattle) captained by Finch who offers a cut rate Captain Queeg with potatoes standing in for strawberries. Some 70 years later there's a certain nostalgic appeal about these wooden actors which makes the film worth a watch.
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