The Big Blockade

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The Big Blockade
Directed by Charles Frend
Produced by Michael Balcon
Written by Charles Frend
Angus McPhail
Starring Leslie Banks
Will Hay
John Mills
Michael Redgrave
Music by Richard Addinsell
Cinematography Wilkie Cooper
Douglas Slocombe
Editing by Compton Bennett
Charles Crichton
Distributed by Ealing Studios
Release date(s) Flag of United Kingdom 23 March 1940
Running time 73 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
IMDb profile

The Big Blockade is a wartime propaganda film from Ealing studios, made in a mock documentary style, in which the success of the economic blockade of Germany is highlighted in a humorous manner via a series of sketches.

The film was made in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Welfare.

[edit] Cast

Leslie Banks - Taylor
Michael Redgrave - Russian
Will Hay - Skipper
John Mills - Tom
Frank Cellier - Schneider
Robert Morley - Von Geiselbrecht

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