San Demetrio London (1943)
Note: this print runs 98 minutes against a recorded 104 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Walter Fitzgerald, Ralph Michael, Arthur Young, Gordon Jackson, Robert Beatty, James Donald
Directed by Charles Frend, Robert Hamer
San Demetrio London is a 1943 British World War II docudrama based on the true story of the 1940 salvage of the tanker MV San Demetrio by some of her own crew, who reboarded her after she had been set on fire by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then abandoned, during the Battle of the Atlantic. The film was produced by Michael Balcon for Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Frend.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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