Sep 14th
The Ship That Died of Shame*
(GB 1955)
Rank/Ealing. 95m. bw

A WWII gunboat captain returns to the vessel again after the war to use it for smuggling, but the goods become increasingly unsavoury.
Downbeat and not particularly likeable Ealing variation on The Cruel Sea, but quite stylishly moody in atmosphere, and a welcome antidote to the usual spate of stiff upper lip films of this type.

Written by: Basil Dearden, Michael Relph, Joan Whiting, based on the novel by Nicholas Monsorrat.
Producers: Basil Dearden, Michael Relph.
Director: Basil Dearden.
Starring: George Baker, Richard Attenborough, Virginia McKenna, Bill Owen, Roland Culver, Bernard Lee, Harold Goodwin, John Longden.
Photography: Gordon Dines.
Music: William Alwyn.