Channel Incident
1940 British film by Anthony Asquith
Channel Incident is a 1940 British short black and white drama-documentary propaganda film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Harker, Robert Newton and Kenneth Griffith. It was written by Dallas Bower from a story credited to "Bartimeus", and produced by Asquith for the Ministry of Information.
01Scenario
The film combines documentary footage with acted scenes and depicts the female owner of a yacht, the Wanderer, heading across the English Channel to help evacuate British troops from Dunkirk. Other ships referenced, as the larger vessels to which the civilian small craft are ferrying troops lifted from the beaches, are the SS Princess Louise, SS Blackburn Rovers and Devonia.
02Cast
- Peggy Ashcroft as She
- Gordon Harker as Ferris
- Robert Newton as Tanner
- Kenneth Griffith as Johnny
Sources and credits
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- Channel Incident- the Production of a Ministry of Information Film, UK, September 1940 D1080.jpg by Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, Public domain
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