The Lost People, also known as Cockpit, is a 1949 British drama film directed by Muriel Box and Bernard Knowles and starring Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling and Richard Attenborough.

However, the displaced people, after uniting against fascism for five years, begin to disintegrate into their own ancient feuds: Serb against Croat, Pole against Russian, resistance fighter against collaborator and everyone against the Jews.

[4] It was shot partly at Denham Studios outside London with sets designed by the art directors John Elphick and George Provis.

Technically incompetent, flat and lifeless, it achieves climaxes solely by loud, emphatic bursts of background music over clumsily-handled crowd movements.

The crowds of extras wear their rags and foreign accents uneasily, as might be expected: of the leading players, Mai Zetterling (impeccably made up throughout) gives almost a caricature of her familiar refugee role, Dennis Price is ineffectual and anonymous, Richard Attenborough bewildered, and Siobhan McKenna tries hard to graft Irish charm on to a French communist agitator.