The Big Blockade
Overview
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
- Production
- Ealing Studios
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Cast
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
John Stuart
Royal Navy: Naval Officer
Morland Graham
Civil Service
John Boxer
Press
Cyril Chamberlain
Press
George Merritt
German: German Shelter Marshal
George Woodbridge
Quisling
Ronald Adam
German businessman (uncredited)
Thora Hird
German barmaid (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Charles Frend
- Writers
- Angus MacPhail
- Producers
- Michael Balcon
- Cinematography
- Douglas Slocombe,Wilkie Cooper
- Composer
- Richard Addinsell
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CinemaSerf
June 26, 2022
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 tho…