Cargoes (1939)
Details
Original Title: Cargoes
Release Date: January 02, 1939
Runtime: 9 minutes
Budget: $0.0
Revenue: $0.0
Overview
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.
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TMDB Popularity: 0.21
