Film
Cargoes
1939 · 9m · Documentary
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- 5.7
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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.
Crew
- Humphrey JenningsDirector
- Alberto CavalcantiProducer
Media
Details
- Release date
- January 2, 1939
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 9m
- Genres
- Documentary
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