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Neutral Port (1940)

Neutral Port poster
Directed by
Marcel Varnel
Genre
war film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, a crew of British seamen and their captain try to smuggle a ship out of a neutral port. They must avoid enemy spies and officials to succeed.

lightheartedcomedicwartimeupbeatbriskpatrioticplayfulstraightforward

What happens

Neutral Port (also known as The Net) is a 1940 British war comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Fyffe, Leslie Banks, Yvonne Arnaud, and Phyllis Calvert. It was written by T.J. Morrison and J.B. Williams and produced and distributed by Gainsborough Pictures. It was one of several films Fyffe made for Gainsborough. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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