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For Freedom


Director: Maurice Elvey

Genre: Drama

Year: 1940

Running time: 85 minutes

Territory: Worldwide

Studio: ITV

Cast: Will Fyffe, Anthony Hulme, E.V.H. Emmett, Guy Middleton.

A newsreel chief and his son agree to make a film on human achievement. The chief, however, is more concerned with his original idea of Shadow Over Europe, a newsreel about Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. His son resigns and travels to South America where he encounters a story. During the battle of the River Plate, a German battleship, the Graf Spee, has been sunk by British Ships. Has he found himself an important newsreel?




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