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The Big Blockade

6.5 / 10

73 minutes

1942-01-19

English

GB

Actors :

Leslie Banks, Michael Redgrave, Will Hay, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Michael Rennie, Frank Cellier, Robert Morley, Alfred Drayton, Marius Goring, Austin Trevor, Albert Lieven, Leif Konow

Description

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/26/2022, 5:35:11 AM

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 wo...