Red Ensign (1934)

Directors

Michael Powell

Cast

Alfred Drayton, Carol Goodner, Donald Calthrop, Frank Vosper, Frederick Piper, Henry Oscar, Jack Lambert, John Laurie, Leslie Banks

The story

In 1933, David Barr is the manager and chief designer of Glasgow shipbuilding firm Burns, McKinnon & Co. He comes up with a radical new ship design that can carry 25% more cargo for the tonnage and use less fuel at a time when the industry as a whole is in recession. Barr decides to build not just one ship, as Lord Dean advises, but twenty (to bring the costs down to a manageable level).

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