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For Freedom

0.0 87 mins Drama   War   1940
Gainsborough Pictures  
Director(s): Castleton Knight Maurice Elvey

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.

Casts of For Freedom

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

Bill Russell

as Adolf Hitler

J.E.T. Harper

as Narrator (voice)

Patrick Dove

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

Charles Pottinger

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

F.M. Murphy

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

Aubrey Jenkins

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

Engineer Angel

as Self - Engineer Angel, S.S. Tairoa

Engineer Walker

as Self - Engineer Walker, S.S. Tairoa

Terry-Thomas

as News Reader

Millicent Wolf

as Secretary

Jack Raine

as Cutter

Pat Williams

as Cutter

Miles Malleson

as Minor Role

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