

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…