The Shipbuilders (1943)

Directed by

John Baxter

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows workers at a Scottish shipyard preparing for World War Two. It shows their labor and personal struggles as the war approaches.

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What happens

The Shipbuilders is a 1943 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Clive Brook, Morland Graham and Nell Ballantyne. It was written by Stephen Potter, Reginald Pound and Gordon Wellesley based on the 1935 novel of the same title by George Blake. The film is set in a Clyde shipyard in the build-up to the Second World War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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