The Big Blockade

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The Big Blockade
Image:Big blockade.jpg
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)	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 23 March 1940
Running time	73 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Big Blockade is a 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.

[edit] Cast

Leslie Banks - Taylor
Michael Redgrave - Russian
Will Hay - Skipper
John Mills - Tom
Frank Cellier - Schneider
Robert Morley - Von Geiselbrecht

[edit] External links

The Big Blockade at the Internet Movie Database

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Actors	Moore Marriott · Graham Moffatt · John Mills · Charles Hawtrey ·
Directors	William Beaudine · Marcel Varnel · Basil Dearden ·
Distributors	Gainsborough Pictures · Ealing Studios ·