The Last Inch

The Last Inch
Russian: Последний дюйм
Directed by
Written by
Produced byS. Goloshchekin
Starring
CinematographySamuil Rubashkin
Edited byElena Bazhenova
Music byMoisey Vaynberg
Production
company
Release date
  • June 10, 1959 (1959-06-10)
Running time
89 min
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Last Inch (Russian: Последний дюйм, romanized: Posledniy dyuym) is a 1959 Soviet adventure drama film directed by Nikita Kurikhin and Teodor Vulfovich. It is based on an eponymous short story, [ru] by James Aldridge published in the USSR in 1957, and in London in 1960.

Plot

The film is about unemployed Ben Ensley, a professional pilot, who decides to take dangerous underwater photographs of sharks to make money, and goes with his son Davy, who had to persuade him to come along, as Ben initially intended to go alone, to a distant shark bay. While taking the pictures, Ben gets bitten by a shark and bleeds heavily. The only chance for him to survive is to fly back to the small African town they set off from.

Davy carries his father into the plane and then follows his instructions to take off from the beach and follow the route back. But the most complicated and dangerous part of the flight is the landing. Ben Ensley, who's half-conscious from loss of blood, instructs his son about the last inch that he must feel when landing a plane.

The last inch could also refer to the thin margin between life and death for the Protagonists.

Cast

Music track

References

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  4. ↑ "Кушать подано: 10 лучших фильмов с участием акул". Archived from the original on 2019-05-25. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  5. ↑ ""Последний дюйм"" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2011-06-24. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
  6. ↑ "The Last Inch (1959) Full Cast / Crew". Archived from the original on 2022-03-11. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  7. ↑ "«Песня Бена» из кинофильма «Последний дюйм»". Гостелерадиофонд. 1960. Archived from the original on 2012-06-26. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
  8. ↑ "Вячеслав Яцко". Bandcamp.