A tale of the highs and lows of life protecting the vital convoys between America & England during WWII.A tale of the highs and lows of life protecting the vital convoys between America & England during WWII.A tale of the highs and lows of life protecting the vital convoys between America & England during WWII.
Allan Jeayes
- Commander Blount
- (as Alan Jeayes)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaWriter/Director Pen Tennyson was in the RNVR (Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve) and was granted an exemption from service while he made this film. To gain some experience of convoy life he served on HMS Valourous on convoy duty.
- GoofsThe U37 Commander says to take the submarine down to 50 feet. Being German, he should have said 15 meters, as Germany used the metric system. The Officers on the Deutschland, later in the movie, use metric measurements.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits prefatory title: " CONVOY" is dedicated in all gratitude to the Officers and Men of the Royal and Merchant Navies. Their cheerful co-operation made it possible to present the many scenes in our film which were taken at sea under actual wartime conditions.
- SoundtracksRule Britannia
(uncredited)
Lyrics by James Thomson
Music by Thomas Augustine Arne
Heard as a theme during the film and also played over the end credits
Featured review
With some studio help, this could have been better.
Even though this film was a flag waving gift to the British war effort, this did not take away from the interesting plot that was contained within the story. Two officers of the same war ship has been married to the same woman and she just so happens to be on a transport vessel that the Germans plan to sink. This is the rub of the story as now conflict between the two officers must be settled before engaging the Germans in a sea battle. And as you can guess from a 1940 British war movie, the allies are going to give their best as the brutes from central Europe try to advance on the people of Great Britain.
For a fast paced early war movie, this was played well by the actors. But for some reason, the filming studio decided, perhaps to save money, used a large amount of miniatures during most of the film which took away from the viewing pleasure. It was probably necessary to use miniatures for some of the fight scenes but this film went well overboard by filming all actors in a studio environment using a water tub for close-up scenes of ships. It was so obvious and useless that they even used studio tanks for lazy shots of a ship that was calm in the water.
Overall the film, even with its cheap looks, did entertain enough to make the story interesting to the end. A bit of help from the studio would have made this project much better.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Konvoj
- Filming locations
- Ealing Studios, Ealing, London, England, UK(studio: produced at, as A British Picture made at also)
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- £50,000
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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