“The Dog Stays Aboard…We Might Need To Eat Him”

I’ve always thought of this 1957 lifeboat drama, directed and adapted by Richard Sale, as Abandon Ship!, but the British title is Seven Waves Away. Without going into a big song-and-dance about it, it’s a better-than-decent serving of a high-stakes moral tale –a story that teeters on the question of “who lives and who dies, and is there any fair way for a captain to choose?”