72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Red Ensign

Michael Powell
     69 m.
Synopsis
A Clydeside shipbuilder risks his business to develop a new design, but his board will not back him. Rather than risk defeat, he forges a signature to gain extra finance and is arrested, but the new ship is a success. Filmed partly on location in Glasgow, and with a dynamic performance by Banks, the film struck an unusual note of topicality after the Depression.
Director
Michael Powell
Screenplay
L. du Garde
Photography
Leslie Rowson
Edition
Geoffrey Barkas
Cast
Leslie Banks (David Barr), Carol Goodner (June MacKinnon), Frank Vosper (Lord Dean), Alfred Drayton (Manning)
Running Time
69 m.
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