The Last Inch single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1960... 1960 The Last Inch
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A bush pilot is badly injured, leaving his young son to fly them both home.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon ПОСЛЕДНИЙ ДЮЙМ The Last Inch Leonid Belokurov , ( dir. Nikita Kurikhin et. al. )agent Russia : 1958 8100016 1958 single work film/TV

A Russian film adaptation of James Aldridge's short story 'The Last Inch': a bush pilot is badly attacked while filming a shark feeding frenzy, leaving his young son to fly them both back to get medical treatment.

Notes

  • Followed by 'The Shark Cage'.

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Alternative title: Djumi I Fundit
Language: Albanian
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Related Works

The Shark Cage James Aldridge , 1960 single work children's fiction children's adventure
— Appears in: Gold and Sand : Stories 1960; (p. 197-222) Open-Air Adventure Stories for Boys 1965; (p. 161-184) Despite his misgivings Davy accompanies his father back to the site of a shark attack, during which his father lost an arm, in the hope of gaining valuable underwater film footage for an American film company.
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