The Big Blockade
1942 | 73m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Charles Frend |
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| Writer: | Angus MacPhail |
| Staring: |
| Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war. | |
| Release Date: | Jan 19, 1942 |
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| Director: | Charles Frend |
| Writer: | Angus MacPhail |
| Genres: | Drama, War |
| Keywords | world war ii, propaganda |
| Production Companies | Ealing Studios |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 07, 2024 Entered: May 03, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Leslie Banks | Taylor |
| Michael Redgrave | Russian |
| Will Hay | Skipper |
| John Mills | Tom |
| Bernard Miles | Royal Navy Mate |
| Michael Rennie | George |
| Frank Cellier | Schneider |
| Robert Morley | Von Geiselbrecht |
| Alfred Drayton | Direktor |
| Marius Goring | German Propaganda Officer |
| Austin Trevor | U-boat Captain |
| Albert Lieven | Gunter |
| Leif Konow | Dane |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Angus MacPhail | Screenplay |
| Compton Bennett | Editor |
| Thomas N. Morahan | Art Direction |
| Ernest Irving | Music Director |
| Wilkie Cooper | Director of Photography |
| Charles Frend | Director |
| Charles Crichton | Editor |
| Roy Kellino | Special Effects |
| Douglas Slocombe | Director of Photography |
| Richard Addinsell | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Michael Balcon | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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When watching this film, I think it imperative that you cast your mind (or imagination) back to just how precarious things were in Britain in 1942. The pack-hunting U-boat tactics operational in the Atlantic were proving effective for the Nazis, and causing significant shortages. It is against that ... backdrop that the usually jocular Will Hay takes on the more serious role of a Royal Navy Captain working on a blockade of supplies reaching the Reich. Ably assisted by Bernard Miles and a cast of thousands including John Mills, Leslie Banks, Michael Rennie and their on-screen counterparts Albert Lieven, Marius Goring and a curiously cast Robert Morley, they keep it moving, rather dryly, for 70-odd minutes. It is not a very good piece of cinema, indeed it may well have come from the Army Cinematograph Unit by the looks of it - but it served a purpose, and that ought not to be underestimated as it rolls along.