The Last Inch

The Last Inch (Russian: Последний дюйм, romanized: Posledniy dyuym) is a 1959 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Kurikhin and Teodor Vulfovich.[2][3][4] It is based on an eponymous short story by James Aldridge published in the USSR in 1957, and in London in 1960.[5]

The Last Inch
Russian: Последний дюйм
Directed by
  • Nikita Kurikhin
  • Teodor Vulfovich
Written by
Produced byS. Goloshchekin
Starring
CinematographySamuil Rubashkin
Edited byElena Bazhenova
Music byMoisey Vaynberg[1]
Production
company
Release date
June 10, 1959
Running time
89 min.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot

The film is about an unemployed Ben Ensley, a professional pilot, who decides to take dangerous underwater photographs to make money, and goes with his son Davy (who begged him to come along) to the 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 island 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 also references to the thin margin between life and death of the heroes.

Cast

References
  1. Музыка из ада, музыка жизни, или Явление Вайнберга
  2. Режиссёр Никита Курихин: его убийцей стал купленный по блату «Запорожец»
  3. «Пассажирка»: возможность оперы
  4. Кушать подано: 10 лучших фильмов с участием акул
  5. "«Последний дюйм»" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2011-06-24. Retrieved 2012-06-11. Ленфильм. Аннотированный каталог фильмов киностудии «Ленфильм» 1918—2003
  6. The Last Inch (1959) Full Cast / Crew
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