Word: eckersley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleet of merchant vessels from a European port (presumably Norway) to England. The problem is complicated cinematically because 1) the convoying cruiser's Lieut. Cranford (John Clements) is supposed to have run away with, then deserted the wife of Cruiser Captain Armitage (Clive Brook); 2) crusty old Captain Eckersley (Edward Chapman) of the tramp steamer Seaflower prefers to go it alone, keeps dropping out of the convoy, unconsciously betraying its presence to German U-boats. Aboard the Seaflower is the runaway wife (Judy Campbell) and a hold full of frightened Jewish refugees. By the picture's end Lieut...