Director: Charles Frend
Producer: Michael Balcon
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
73 min
Rating: 6.5/10
Released
Top Cast
Leslie Banks
Taylor
Michael Redgrave
Russian
Will Hay
Skipper
John Mills
Tom
Bernard Miles
Royal Navy Mate
Michael Rennie
George
Movie Info
Director: Charles Frend
Producer: Michael Balcon
Production Companies: Ealing Studios
Countries: United Kingdom
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What Others Said
CinemaSerf:
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.