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For Freedom (1940)
Directed by Castleton Knight, Maurice Elvey
Drama, War · 1h 27m
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.
Cast
Will Fyffe
Chief
A
Anthony Hulme
Steve
E
E. V. H. Emmett
Ted / Commentator
Guy Middleton
Pierre
Albert Lieven
Fritz
Hugh McDermott
Sam
A
Arthur Goullet
Ivan
B
Bill Russell
Adolf Hitler
J
J.E.T. Harper
Narrator (voice)
P
Patrick Dove
Self - Captain Patrick G.G. Dove, S.S. Africa Shell
C
Charles Pottinger
Self - Captain Charles Pottinger, S.S. Ashlea
F
F.M. Murphy
Self - First Officer F.M. Murphy, S.S. Tairoa
Crew
- Director
- Castleton Knight, Maurice Elvey
- Editor
- R. E. Dearing
- Producer
- Edward Black
Details
- Release date
- 1940-05-04
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Gainsborough Pictures