Passage Home is a 1955 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Anthony Steel, Peter Finch and Diane Cilento.

He has a flashback of several years to a voyage on a merchant ship which he was captaining from South America.

He is forced to give passage to a British governess, Ruth Elton, who is returning to England.

There is a subplot about the dissatisfaction of the ship's crew with being fed rotten potatoes, which Ryland has bought cheaply simply to save money.

The potatoes are dumped overboard and Ryland is determined to find out who is responsible by offering the crew £5 for any information as to who did it.

At the allotted time of the funeral Ryland is drunk, drowning his sorrow in whisky due to being rejected by Ruth (whom he had seriously assaulted, ripping her dress).

"[3] The script was by William Fairchild who had written Morning Departure (1950), alo directed by Baker.

"[4] He added "there was this fatal flaw, it was an old-fashioned story in an almost contemporary setting and it didn’t really work.

Cilento had only recently appeared on stage in The Big Knife and signed a five-year contract with Alex Korda.

"[1] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This is a film made with considerable if impersonal accomplishment, and an efficient surface realism; the story has promising elements, and there is evidence of determination in the writing generally to get beyond the stereotype in the characterisations of the crew of the Bulinga.

Only Ryland (played with an effective, sullen concentration by Peter Finch) emerges as a fully rounded figure; Ruth (Diane Cilento, a clearly interesting personality here none too happily cast) remains an elusive, too passive character, and Vosper (Anthony Steel) is colourless.

The triangle situation, anyway, is lost at its crisis by the intervention of the storm, a deus ex machina in disguise which takes up an unconscionable amount of footage.