Channel Incident
1940 British film by Anthony Asquith
Channel Incident is a 1940 British short (15 minutes) drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Harker, Robert Newton and Kenneth Griffith. It combines documentary footage with acting.
The film is a propaganda effort, made during the Second World War, that depicts the female owner (Ashcroft) of a yacht, the Wanderer, heading across the English Channel to help evacuate British troops from Dunkirk.[1][2] 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.
References
External links
Channel Incident at IMDb
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Films directed by Anthony Asquith
- Shooting Stars (1927)
- Underground (1928)
- The Runaway Princess (1929)
- A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
- Tell England (1931)
- Dance Pretty Lady (1931)
- The Lucky Number (1933)
- Unfinished Symphony (1934)
- Moscow Nights (1935)
- Pygmalion (1938)
- French Without Tears (1940)
- Freedom Radio (1941)
- Quiet Wedding (1941)
- Cottage to Let (1941)
- Uncensored (1942)
- We Dive at Dawn (1943)
- The Demi-Paradise (1943)
- Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
- The Way to the Stars (1945)
- While the Sun Shines (1947)
- The Winslow Boy (1948)
- The Woman in Question (1950)
- The Browning Version (1951)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
- The Net (1953)
- The Final Test (1953)
- The Young Lovers (1954)
- Carrington V.C. (1954)
- Orders to Kill (1958)
- The Doctor's Dilemma (1958)
- Libel (1959)
- The Millionairess (1960)
- Two Living, One Dead (1961)
- Guns of Darkness (1962)
- The V.I.P.s (1963)
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
- The Story of Papworth (1935)
- Channel Incident (1940)
- Rush Hour (1941)
- Two Fathers (1944)
- On Such a Night (1955)
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