The Last Inch (Russian: Последний дюйм, romanized: Posledniy dyuym) is a 1959 Soviet adventure 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 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.

The only chance for him to survive is to fly back to the small African town they set off from.

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.