Synopsis
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.
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Will Fyffe
Chief

Anthony Hulme
Steve

E. V. H. Emmett
Ted / Commentator

Guy Middleton
Pierre

Albert Lieven
Fritz

Hugh McDermott
Sam

Arthur Goullet
Ivan

Bill Russell
Adolf Hitler

J.E.T. Harper
Narrator (voice)

Patrick Dove
Self - Captain Patrick G.G. Dove, S.S. Africa Shell

Charles Pottinger
Self - Captain Charles Pottinger, S.S. Ashlea

F.M. Murphy
Self - First Officer F.M. Murphy, S.S. Tairoa