Release Date

07 Dec, 1943

Runtime

01:37: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.

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Actors

Walter Fitzgerald

Ralph Michael

Neville Mapp

Barry Letts

Frederick Piper

Gordon Jackson

Robert Beatty

Mervyn Johns

James Donald

Nigel Clarke

Arthur Young

Michael Allen

Herbert Cameron

Charles Victor

James McKechnie

David Horne

Duncan McIntyre

Crew

Charles Frend

Robert Hamer

Robert Hamer

Charles Frend

F. Tennyson Jesse

John Greenwood

Ernest Palmer

Eily Boland

Michael Balcon