Cargoes (1939)
Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime run through the Mediterranean—Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Haifa—under the gaze of the Mediterranean Fleet (HMS Barham, Malaya, Warspite). After the Ionian was sunk by a German mine on 29 November 1939 en route from Crete to Hull, the film was recut and released as Cargoes.
- Date of release
- 1939-01-02
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 9m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Humphrey Jennings
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