The Big Blockade (1942)

★ 6.0 1h 13m IMDb

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

The Big Blockade

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Leslie Banks
Leslie Banks as Taylor Died 1952 · West Derby, Liverpool, England, UK Leslie Banks, CBE (9 June 1890 – 21 April 1952) was an English theatre and cinema actor, director and producer, now best remembered playing gruff, menacing characters in black and white movies of the...
Michael Redgrave
Michael Redgrave as Russian Died 1985 · Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager and author. He is the father of actors Vanessa, Corin and Lynn Redgrave..
Will Hay
Will Hay as Skipper Died 1949 · Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Thomson "Will" Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, film director and amateur astronomer. Description above fro...
John Mills
John Mills as Tom Died 2005 · The Watts Naval Training College, North Elmham, Norfolk, England, UK Sir John Mills, CBE (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. On screen, he often p...
Bernard Miles
Bernard Miles as Royal Navy Mate Died 1991 · Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE (27 September 1907–14 June 1991) was an English character actor, writer and director. He opened the Mermaid Theatre in Lond...
Michael Rennie
Michael Rennie as George Died 1971 · Bradford, Yorkshire, England Michael Rennie (born August 1909 – June 10, 1971) was an English actor best known for his role as Klaatu in the science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). He enjoyed a successful ca...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 6/10 Jun 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 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.

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