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.
- Released
- 1940-05-04
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Castleton Knight, Maurice Elvey
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Will Fyffe as Chief
- Anthony Hulme as Steve
- E. V. H. Emmett as Ted / Commentator
- Guy Middleton as Pierre
- Albert Lieven as Fritz
- Hugh McDermott as Sam
- Arthur Goullet as Ivan
- Bill Russell as Adolf Hitler
- J.E.T. Harper as Narrator (voice)
- Patrick Dove as Self - Captain Patrick G.G. Dove, S.S. Africa Shell
- Charles Pottinger as Self - Captain Charles Pottinger, S.S. Ashlea
- F.M. Murphy as Self - First Officer F.M. Murphy, S.S. Tairoa
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