The Big Blockade
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The Big Blockade | |
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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) | 23 March 1940 |
Running time | 73 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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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