For Freedom

For Freedom (1940)


  • Genre: Drama, War
  • Release Date: 1940-05-04
  • Runtime: 1h 27min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Directors: Castleton Knight, Maurice Elvey.

Summary

Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.

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  • Will Fyffe

    as Chief

  • Anthony Hulme

    as Steve

  • E. V. H. Emmett

    as Ted / Commentator

  • Guy Middleton

    as Pierre

  • Albert Lieven

    as Fritz

  • Hugh McDermott

    as Sam

  • Arthur Goullet

    as Ivan

  • Bill Russell

    as Adolf Hitler

  • J.E.T. Harper

    as Narrator (voice)

  • Patrick Dove

    as Self - Captain Patrick G.G. Dove, S.S. Africa Shell

  • Charles Pottinger

    as Self - Captain Charles Pottinger, S.S. Ashlea

  • F.M. Murphy

    as Self - First Officer F.M. Murphy, S.S. Tairoa

  • Aubrey Jenkins

    as Self - Enginer-Officer Aubrey Jenkins, S.S. Doric Star

  • Engineer Angel

    as Self - Engineer Angel, S.S. Tairoa

  • Engineer Walker

    as Self - Engineer Walker, S.S. Tairoa

  • Arthur Denton

    as

  • Terry-Thomas

    as News Reader

  • Millicent Wolf

    as Secretary

  • Jack Raine

    as Cutter

  • Pat Williams

    as Cutter

  • Miles Malleson

    as Minor Role
Sound Louis Levy Music
Production Edward Black Producer
Camera Arthur Crabtree Camera Operator
Crew Leslie Arliss Script
Editing R. E. Dearing Editor
Directing Castleton Knight Director
Directing Maurice Elvey Director

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