The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)

Directed by

Basil Dearden

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After World War II, the crew of a gun boat uses their old vessel for black market smuggling. The boat itself starts to fail them as they drift into crime.

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What happens

The Ship That Died of Shame, released in the United States as PT Raiders, is a black-and-white 1955 Ealing Studios crime film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen and Virginia McKenna. The film is based on a story written by Nicholas Monsarrat (author of The Cruel Sea), which originally appeared in Lilliput magazine in 1952. It was later published in a collection of short stories, The Ship That Died of Shame and other stories, in 1959. After the war, the crew of a gun boat turn their hand to black market smuggling, but their previously reliable craft begins to let them down. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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