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Malta Story

Malta Story
Original UK film poster
Directed byBrian Desmond Hurst
Written byNigel Balchin
William Fairchild
Based onStory by William Fairchild
an idea by Thorold Dickinson
Peter de Sarigny
Sir Hugh P. Lloyd (book, Briefed to Attack)
Produced byPeter De Sarigny
StarringAlec Guinness
Jack Hawkins
Anthony Steel
Muriel Pavlow
Flora Robson
CinematographyRobert Krasker
Edited byMichael Gordon
Music byWilliam Alwyn
Production
company
Theta Film Productions[1]
Distributed byGFD (UK)
United Artists (US)
Release dates
  • 23 June 1953 (1953-06-23) (UK)
  • 5 August 1954 (1954-08-05) (US)
Running time
103 minutes (UK)
97 minutes (US)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

Director Brian Desmond Hurst in 1976 (portrait by Allan Warren)
  1. ^ "Malta Story (1953)". BFI. Archived from the original on 25 April 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Parish 268 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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