Cast
- Richard Todd as Lieutenant-Commander John Simon Kerans, RN, British Assistant Naval Attaché, Nanking, and replacement Commanding Officer
- William Hartnell as Leading Seaman (Quartermaster) Leslie Frank, RN, Coxswain
- Akim Tamiroff as Colonel Peng, PLA Political Officer
- Donald Houston as Lieutenant Geoffrey Lee Weston, DSC, RN, First Lieutenant
- Keye Luke as Captain Kuo Tai, PLA
- Sophie Stewart as Miss Charlotte Dunlap, hospital matron
- Robert Urquhart as Flight Lieutenant Michael Edward Fearnley, RAF, replacement Medical Officer
- James Kenney as Lieutenant Keith Stewart Hett, RN
- Richard Leech as Lieutenant Strain, RN
- Michael Brill as Lieutenant Peter Egerton Capel Berger, RN
- Barry Foster as Stores Petty Officer John Justin McCarthy, RN
- Thomas Heathcote as Commissioned Gunner Monaghan, RN
- Sam Kydd as Able Seaman Walker, RN
- Ewen Solon as Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class Leonard Walter Williams, RN
- Brian Smith as Boy 1st Class Keith Cantrill Martin, RN
- Kenneth Cope Store's Rating HMS Amythest
- Alfred Burke as Petty Officer
- Richard Coleman as Lieutenant-Commander Bernard Morland Skinner, RN, Commanding Officer
- Ian Bannen as Stoker Mechanic Paddy Bannister, RN
- Ray Jackson as Telegraphist Jack Leonard French, RN
- Gordon Whiting as Surgeon Lieutenant John Michael Alderton, RN, Medical Officer
- Bernard Cribbins as Able Seaman James Bryson, RN (his feature film debut)
- Anthony Chinn as PLA Officer
- John Paul as Staff Officer Operations
- Basil Dignam as Sir Lionel Henry Lamb, British Ambassador to the Republic of China
- Ralph Truman as Vice-Admiral
- Gene Anderson as Ruth Worth, nurse
- John Horsley as Chief Staff Officer
- Tom Bowman as Commander Ian Greig Robertson, DSC, RN, Commanding Officer, HMS Consort
- Jeremy Burnham as Flag Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral
- Cyril Luckham as Commander-in-Chief, Far Eastern Station
- Allan Cuthbertson as Captain Donaldson, RN, British Naval Attaché, Nanking
- Ballard Berkeley as Lieutenant-Colonel Dewar-Curie, British Assistant Military Attaché, Nanking
- Keith Faulkner as Ordinary Signalman
- Rhett Ward as Lieutenant Milehouse, RN
- Philip Vickers as Surgeon Lieutenant Packard, RN
- Tsai Chin as Sampan Woman
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