Overview
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.
Cast
- Will Fyffe as Chief
- Anthony Hulme as Steve
- E. V. H. Emmett as Ted / Commentator
- Guy Middleton as Pierre
- Albert Lieven as Fritz
- Hugh McDermott as Sam
- 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