director:
Humphrey Jennings
género:
Documentary
región:
Estados Unidos
idioma:
Inglés
duración: 9m
fecha de publicación: 1939-01-02
IMDb: tt0150044
sinopsis
Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime run through the Mediterranean—Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Haifa—under the gaze of the Mediterranean Fleet (HMS Barham, Malaya, Warspite). After the Ionian was sunk by a German mine on 29 November 1939 en route from Crete to Hull, the film was recut and released as Cargoes.