San Demetrio London

San Demetrio London
Original British quad format cinema poster
Directed by	Charles Frend Robert Hamer (uncredited)
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Screenplay by	Charles Frend Robert Hamer F. Tennyson Jesse
Starring	Arthur Young Walter Fitzgerald Ralph Michael
Music by	John D. H. Greenwood
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer
Edited by	Eily Boland
Production company	Ealing Studios
Distributed by	Associated British Film Distributors
Release dates	December 1943 (1943-12)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

San Demetrio London is a 1943 World War II docudrama based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned, during the Battle of the Atlantic.

Cast

Arthur Young as Captain George Waite
Walter Fitzgerald as Chief Engineer Charles Pollard
Ralph Michael as 2nd Officer Hawkins
Neville Mapp as 3rd Engineer Willey
Barry Letts as Apprentice John Jones
Michael Allen as Cadet Roy Housden
Frederick Piper as Boatswain W.E. Fletcher
Herbert Cameron as Pumpman Davies
John Owers as Steward
Gordon Jackson as Messboy John Jamieson
Robert Beatty as "Yank" Preston
Charles Victor as Deckhand
James McKechnie as Deckhand
John Coyle as Deckhand
Duncan McIntyre as Deckhand (as Duncan MacIntyre)
Rex Holt as Deckhand
Mervyn Johns as Greaser John Boyle
Lawrence O'Madden as Captain E.S.F. Fegen V.C. - HMS Jervis Bay
James Donald as Gunnery Control Officer - HMS Jervis Bay
James Sadler as Officer of the Watch - HMS Jervis Bay
Peter Miller Street as Midshipman - HMS Jervis Bay
David Horne as Mr. Justice Langton
Nigel Clarke as R.J.E. Dodds - Shipping Manager
James Knight as Captain Smith - SS Gloucester City

Reception

According to trade papers, the film was a success at the British box office in 1944.^[1]

References

↑ Robert Murphy, Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48 2003 p 207

External links

San Demetrio London in the British Film Institute's "Explore film..." database
San Demetrio London at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
San Demetrio London at the Internet Movie Database
San Demetrio London at AllMovie

Films directed by Charles Frend

The Big Blockade (1942)
The Foreman Went to France (1942)
San Demetrio London (1943)
Johnny Frenchman (1945)
The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947)
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
A Run for Your Money (1949)
The Magnet (1950)
The Cruel Sea (1953)
Lease of Life (1954)
The Long Arm (1956)
Barnacle Bill (1957)
Cone of Silence (1960)
Girl on Approval (1961)
Torpedo Bay (1963)
The Sky Bike (1967)

Films produced by Michael Balcon

1920s	The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Blighty (1927) Downhill (1927) The Rolling Road (1927) Easy Virtue (1927) One of the Best (1927) The Vortex (1927) A South Sea Bubble (1928) A Light Woman (1928) The First Born (1928) The Wrecker (1929) The Return of the Rat (1929) City of Play (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Woman to Woman (1929)

1930s	Jack's the Boy (1932) I Was a Spy (1933) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Princess Charming (1934) Evergreen (1934) Red Ensign (1934) Along Came Sally (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Car of Dreams (1935) First a Girl (1935) Me and Marlborough (1935) The 39 Steps (1935) Stormy Weather (1935) Things Are Looking Up (1935) The First Offence (1936) Tudor Rose (1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Secret Agent (1936) Where There's a Will (1936) Windbag the Sailor (1936) Doctor Syn (1937) A Yank at Oxford (1938) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)

1940s	Let George Do It! (1940) The Proud Valley (1940) The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) Ships with Wings (1941) Turned Out Nice Again (1941) The Big Blockade (1942) Went the Day Well? (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) My Learned Friend (1943) The Foreman Went to France (1942) Undercover (1943) The Bells Go Down (1943) San Demetrio London (1943) Nine Men (1943) For Those in Peril (1944) Champagne Charlie (1944) The Halfway House (1944) Fiddlers Three (1944) Dead of Night (1945) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) They Came to a City (1945) Johnny Frenchman (1945) The Captive Heart (1946) The Overlanders (1946) Hue and Cry (1947) It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Frieda (1947) Against the Wind (1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Passport to Pimlico (1949) Whisky Galore! (1949) A Run for Your Money (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

1950s	Cage of Gold (1950) The Blue Lamp (1950) The Magnet (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Pool of London (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) The Cruel Sea (1953) The Ladykillers (1953) The Maggie (1954) The Night My Number Came Up (1955) Touch and Go (1955) The Long Arm (1956) Barnacle Bill (1957) The Man in the Sky (1957) The Shiralee (1957) Dunkirk (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

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