For Freedom

For Freedom

87 mins | Drama, War | May 4, 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.

For Freedom

87 mins | Drama, War | May 4, 1940

For Freedom
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.
Producers Gainsborough Pictures
Original title For Freedom
Directors Castleton Knight, Maurice Elvey
Writers

Cast

Will Fyffe

as Chief

Anthony Hulme

as Steve

E. V. H. Emmett

as Ted / Commentator

Guy Middleton

as Pierre

Albert Lieven

as Fritz

Arthur Goullet

as Ivan

Engineer Angel

as Himself - Engineer Angel, S.S. Tairoa

Patrick Dove

as Himself - Captain Patrick G.G. Dove, S.S. Africa Shell

J.E.T. Harper

as Narrator

Aubrey Jenkins

as Himself - Enginer-Officer Aubrey Jenkins, S.S. Doric Star

Miles Malleson

as Minor Role

First Officer Murphy

as Himself - First Officer F.M. Murphy, S.S. Tairoa

Charles Pottinger

as Himself - Captain Charles Pottinger, S.S. Ashlea

Jack Raine

as Cutter

Bill Russell

as Adolf Hitler

Terry-Thomas

as News reader

Engineer Walker

as Himself - Engineer Walker, S.S. Tairoa

Millicent Wolf

as Secretary

Pat Williams

as Cutter