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Cargoes
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 13
Released: 1939-01-02
Running Time: 9 Minutes
Studios: Travel and Industrial Development Association, GPO Film Unit,
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.
