Directed by:
Michael PowellCinematography:
Freddie YoungCast:
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Esmond Knight, Harold Warrender, John Longden, Leo Genn, Peter Bull, Bernard Miles, Milo O'Shea, Deborah Kerr (more)Plots(1)
This is the tale of life in a British port in the first year of World War II. Spies and smugglers abound in the blackout and unreal shore life of the "phoney war" (before the shooting started). (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Conrad Veidt
German Empire
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Casablanca (1942)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Valerie Hobson
UK
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Great Expectations (1946)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Hay Petrie
UK
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The Red Shoes (1948)
Great Expectations (1946)
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Esmond Knight
UK
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The Red Shoes (1948)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Hamlet (1948)
Harold Warrender
UK
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Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Ivanhoe (1952)
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John Longden
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Leo Genn
UK
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The Longest Day (1962)
Moby Dick (1956)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Peter Bull
UK
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Bernard Miles
UK
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Great Expectations (1946)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
The Citadel (1938)
Milo O'Shea
Ireland
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
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Sacco and Vanzetti (1971)
Deborah Kerr
UK
Best movies:
Julius Caesar (1953)
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Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Torin Thatcher
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Great Expectations (1946)
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Esma Cannon
Australia
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
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A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Cameron Hall
UK
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Patrick Barr
India
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
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The Dam Busters (1955)
Nicholas Phipps
UK
Best movies:
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Michael Shepley
UK
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Raymond Lovell
Canada
Best movies:
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Contraband (1940)
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