Malta Story | |
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Directed by | Brian Desmond Hurst |
Written by | Nigel Balchin William Fairchild |
Based on | Story by William Fairchild an idea by Thorold Dickinson Peter de Sarigny Sir Hugh P. Lloyd (book, Briefed to Attack) |
Produced by | Peter De Sarigny |
Starring | Alec Guinness Jack Hawkins Anthony Steel Muriel Pavlow Flora Robson |
Cinematography | Robert Krasker |
Edited by | Michael Gordon |
Music by | William Alwyn |
Production company | Theta Film Productions[1] |
Distributed by | GFD (UK) United Artists (US) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 103 minutes (UK) 97 minutes (US) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Malta Story is a 1953 British war film, directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, which is set during the air defence of Malta during the Siege of Malta in the Second World War.[2] The film uses real and unique footage of the locations at which the battles were fought and includes a love story between an RAF reconnaissance pilot and a Maltese woman, as well as the anticipated execution of her brother, caught as an Italian spy. The pilot's character is loosely based on Adrian Warburton, and the Maltese woman's brother's is based on Carmelo Borg Pisani, who was executed in 1942.
Parish 268
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