For Those in Peril

For Those in Peril is a 1944 British war film produced by Ealing Studios. The film marked the directorial debut of Charles Crichton and its basic and relatively slight storyline was an end to produce a film with a documentary feel and an element of wartime propaganda. For Those in Peril was developed from a short story by Richard Hillary, an RAF pilot killed in action in January 1943. Aspiring RAF pilot Rawlings (Ralph Michael) fails to make the grade in training, and begrudgingly accepts the alternative of joining the crew of an air-sea rescue craft skippered by Murray (David Farrar). Rawlings is initially resentful and bored by the apparent mundanity and lack of excitement of the life, until the vessel is called on to rescue the crew...