The Silver Fleet (1943)

Directors

Gordon Wellesley, Vernon Sewell

Cast

Esmond Knight, Googie Withers, Ralph Richardson

The story

Early during the Second World War, the Nazis overrun the Netherlands and take control of a submarine shipyard where Jaap van Leyden is the chief engineer. The German Gestapo "Protector" Von Schiffer asks van Leyden to cooperate with the new regime. While pondering his decision, van Leyden walks by a grade school and overhears a teacher telling her class of pupils about Piet Hein, a hero of Dutch lore who captured the Spanish silver fleet and inspired his compatriots to continue fighting for freedom.

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