Cargoes

(1939)

★ 7 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1939

Runtime: 9 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Humphrey Jennings

Plot

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime run through the Mediterranean—Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Haifa—under the gaze of the Mediterranean Fleet (HMS Barham, Malaya, Warspite). After the Ionian was sunk by a German mine on 29 November 1939 en route from Crete to Hull, the film was recut and released as Cargoes.