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The Silver Fleet (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1943 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Vernon Sewell
Gordon Wellesley

Written By:
Vernon Sewell
Gordon Wellesley

Actors:
Ralph Richardson ..... Jaap van Leyden
Googie Withers ..... Helène van Leyden
Esmond Knight ..... Von Schiffer
Beresford Egan ..... Krampf
Frederick Burtwell ..... Captain Müller
Kathleen Byron ..... Schoolmistress
Willem Akkerman ..... Willem van Leyden
Dorothy Gordon ..... Janni Peters
Charles Victor ..... Bastiaan Peters
John Longden ..... Jost Meertens
Joss Ambler ..... Cornelis Smit
Margaret Emden ..... Bertha
George Schelderup ..... Dirk
Neville Mapp ..... Joop
Ivor Barnard ..... Admiral

Synopsis:

When the Nazis overrun Holland, they seize its largest shipyard and turn it into a production centre for their U-Boats. Jaap Van Leyden (Ralph Richardson), the shipyard's owner, is called to a meeting with the head of the Gestapo and offered a deal; collaborate and help to boost U-Boat production - or else. But there's something the Gestapo don't know: Van Leyden is actually a hero of the local resistance and he sets in motion a desperate plan to strike back against the U-Boat production plant. There are two completed U-Boats in his yards. One becomes the target of a daring theft while the other gives Van Leyden an opportunity to launch a do-or-die assassination attempt against his unsuspecting Nazi masters... Produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and co-starring Googie Withers and Esmond Knight, this 1943 film is a fine example of British wartime movie making at its best.

In this war drama set during WW II, an engineer in a Dutch shipyard assists the Nazis with the construction of two new kinds of submarines and finds himself a social pariah. Even his wife turns against her apparently traitorous husband. During the maiden voyage of one of the subs, the engineer talks high-ranking Nazis into joining him aboard their vessel. The Germans are unaware that the engineer has loaded the hapless vessel with dynamite. As that ship explodes, a group of commandos capture the other sub and smuggle it to England.

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaberates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a childs rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers ?

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