The Big Blockade (1942)
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Directors
Charles Frend
Cast
John Mills, Leslie Banks, Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley, Ronald Shiner, Will Hay
The story
The film illustrates thr British strategy of the economic blockade of Nazi Germany through a series of scenes and sketches, combined with documentary footage.
Genres
comedy drama, documentary film, drama film, propaganda film, war film
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