The Big Blockade
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| Directed by | Charles Frend |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Written by | Charles Frend Angus McPhail |
| Starring | Leslie Banks Will Hay John Mills Michael Redgrave |
| Music by | Richard Addinsell |
| Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper Douglas Slocombe |
| Editing by | Compton Bennett Charles Crichton |
| Distributed by | Ealing Studios |
| Release date(s) | UK 23 March 1940 |
| Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Big Blockade is a 1940 British wartime propaganda film from Ealing Studios, made in a mock documentary style, in which the success of the economic blockade of Nazi Germany is highlighted in a humorous manner via a series of sketches.
The film was made in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Welfare.
Cast
- Leslie Banks - Taylor
- Michael Redgrave - Russian
- Will Hay - Skipper
- John Mills - Tom
- Frank Cellier - Schneider
- Robert Morley - Von Geiselbrecht
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