For Freedom (1940)
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.
- Date of release
- 1940-05-04
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Castleton Knight, Maurice Elvey
Casting
- Will Fyffe — Chief
- Anthony Hulme — Steve
- E. V. H. Emmett — Ted / Commentator
- Guy Middleton — Pierre
- Albert Lieven — Fritz
- Hugh McDermott — Sam
- Arthur Goullet — Ivan
- Bill Russell — Adolf Hitler
- J.E.T. Harper — Narrator (voice)
- Patrick Dove — Self - Captain Patrick G.G. Dove, S.S. Africa Shell
- Charles Pottinger — Self - Captain Charles Pottinger, S.S. Ashlea
- F.M. Murphy — Self - First Officer F.M. Murphy, S.S. Tairoa
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