In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the … Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Muriel Pavlow, Anthony Steel, Renée Asherson, Flora Robson, Hugh Burden Added on Amazon Prime 2022-04-06. Added on Paramount 2023-06-02, leaving 2025-01-01.