Western Approaches (film)

Western Approaches is a Technicolor 1944 docufiction film directed by Pat Jackson.

It is the fictional account of 22 sailors marooned in a lifeboat. Much of it was shot in the Irish Sea. Sailors rather than professional actors were used. (source: The Times, 4.7.2011)

Trade papers reported that the film among those "doing well" at the British box office in 1945.^[1]

References

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

External links

• Western Approaches at the Internet Movie Database