The Silver Fleet (1943)
1943 · Feature film · 84 min · dir. Vernon Sewell
The truth is that a Nation will only live as long as it has people ready to die
- Drama
- War
Synopsis
The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation, a Shipyard owner and Chief engineer Jaap van Leyden is summoned to build ships for the German war effort. The commission would allow Leyden to build sophisticated submarines whilst safeguarding jobs for the local Dutch workforce. A newly built U-boat, named U107 goes out on her first sea trial and is hijacked by a Dutch crew and they re-route the vessel to England. As such it provided an…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Vernon Sewell
- Writer
- Gordon Wellesley
- Composer
- Allan Gray
- Cinematography
- Erwin Hillier
- Studio
- The Archers, General Film Distributors, Royal Navy, Royal Netherland Government
- Released
- 1943-06-16
- Running time
- 84 minutes
Cast & crew
Vernon Sewell Director
Ralph Richardson
Googie Withers
Esmond Knight- Beresford Egan
Frederick Burtwell
Kathleen Byron- Willem Akkerman
Dorothy Gordon
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · The Dutch resistance vs. the Nazi's · Kodachrome · 2012-08-05
Not bad for a WWII propaganda movie. It was entertaining and well played.
