A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant, Crichton, is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the community's leader.

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Cast

Bill Travers

Crichton

Virginia McKenna

Lady Mary

Janet Munro

Tweeny

Laurence Naismith

Lord Loam

Richard Easton

Ernest Woolley

Pamela Brown

Lady Brocklehurst

Estelle Kohler

Lady Agatha

Carrie Nye

Lady Catherine