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Western Approaches (film)

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Genre
  
Documentary, Drama, War

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Director
  
Pat Jackson

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Writer
  
Pat Jackson

Initial release
  
September 27, 1946 (USA)

Running time
  
1h 23m

Cast
  
Eric Fullerton, Dick Longford, Captain Andrew William Kerr, Captain Duncan MacKenzie, Eric Baskeyfield

Genres
  
Documentary, War film, Drama

Similar movies
  
Related Pat Jackson movies

Western Approaches is a Technicolor 1944 docufiction film directed by Pat Jackson.

It is the fictional account of 22 sailors adrift in a lifeboat. They are able to signal by Morse code their position. A nearby U-boat receives the signal along with a friendly vessel which changes course to go to their rescue. The captain of the U-Boat decides to wait in ambush with its two remaining torpedoes. Before the rescue ship arrives, the U-Boat's periscope is spotted by the lifeboat. The U-Boat fires its torpedoes just as the rescue vessel is alerted to the U-Boat's presence.

Much of it was shot in the Irish Sea. Sailors rather than professional actors were used.

Trade papers reported that the film among those "doing well" at the British box office in 1945.

References

Western Approaches (film) Wikipedia
Western Approaches (film) IMDb Western Approaches (film) themoviedb.org