Cargoes
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.
Year: 1939
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Travel and Industrial Development Association, GPO Film Unit
Director: Humphrey Jennings
Cast:
Crew: Humphrey Jennings (Director), Alberto Cavalcanti (Producer)
Runtime: 9 minutes
Release: Jan 02, 1939
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 3 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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