San Demetrio, London

• Director: Charles Frend
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: War Drama, Docudrama
• Themes: War At Sea
• Main Cast: Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns, Ralph Michael, Robert Beatty, Gordon Jackson
• Release Year: 1944
• Country: UK
• Run Time: 76 minutes

Plot

The San Demetrio is a British Merchant Marine vessel, traversing the Atlantic shipping channels in early 1940. The ship is disabled at sea, and thus left at the mercy of marauding Axis U-boats. The courageous crew manages to keep the San Demetrio afloat and guide it out of harm's way. San Demetrio, London is stylistically linked to the jingoistic "England Can Take It!" efforts of the wartime years. Despite its most ludicrous passages, the film is firmly based on fact (or at least the facts as related by author F. Tennyson Jesse). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Walter Fitzgerald - Chief Engineer Charles Pollard
• Mervyn Johns - Greaser John Boyle
• Ralph Michael - 2nd Officer Hawkins
• Robert Beatty - "Yank" Preston
• Gordon Jackson - John Jamieson

Frederick Piper - Bosun W.E. Fletcher; Diana Decker; James Donald; David Horne - Mr. Justice Langton; James Knight; Duncan McIntyre; Neville Mapp - 3rd Engineer Willey; James McKechnie - Colum McNeil; Lawrence O'Madden - Capt. Fogarty Fegan; Charles Victor - Deckhand; Arthur Young - Capt. George Waite; Barry Letts - Apprentice John Jones; Herbert Cameron; John Coyle

Credit

Duncan Sutherland - Art Director, Charles Frend - Director, Sidney Cole - Editor, Eily Boland - Editor, John Greenwood - Composer (Music Score), Ernest Irving - Musical Direction/Supervision, Ernest Palmer - Cinematographer, Robert Hamer - Producer, Charles Frend - Screenwriter, Robert Hamer - Screenwriter, F. Tennyson Jesse - Short Story Author

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