The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade

Infobox Film
name = The Big Blockade


image_size = 150px
caption =
director = Charles Frend
producer = Michael Balcon
writer = Charles Frend
Angus McPhail
narrator =
starring = Leslie Banks
Will Hay
John Mills
Michael Redgrave
music = Richard Addinsell
cinematography = Wilkie Cooper
Douglas Slocombe
editing = Compton Bennett
Charles Crichton
distributor = Ealing Studios
released = UK 23 March 1940
runtime = 73 minutes
country = United Kingdom
language = English
budget =
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0034512

The Big Blockade is a 1940 wartime propaganda film from Ealing Studios, made in a mock documentary style, in which the success of the economic blockade of Nazi Germany is highlighted in a humorous manner via a series of sketches.

The film was made in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Welfare.

Cast

*Leslie Banks - Taylor
*Michael Redgrave - Russian
*Will Hay - Skipper
*John Mills - Tom
*Frank Cellier - Schneider
*Robert Morley - Von Geiselbrecht

References

External links

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Will Hay


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