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The Silver Fleet is a 1943 British World War II film written and directed by Vernon Sewell and Gordon Wellesley and produced by Powell and Pressburger under the banner of "The Archers".
The Silver Fleet: Directed by Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley. With Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan. Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland.
The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet (Spanish: Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet; from the Spanish: plata meaning "silver"), was a convoy system of sea routes organized by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790, which linked Spain with its territories in the Americas across the Atlantic.
Jun 4, 2021 · A 1943 British war film written and directed by Vernon Sewell and Gordon Wellesley and produced by Powell and Pressburger under the banner of "The Archers".
Newly available on a fine Region 1 DVD from VCI Entertainment, The Silver Fleet is a topflight propagandistic war drama about a Dutch shipyard owner (Ralph Richardson) who pretends to collaborate with the Nazis when they take over his facility to build U-boats. Richardson secretly plans acts of sabotage, hoping to engineer the hijacking of one ...
THE SILVER FLEET. Directed by. Vernon Sewell, . Gordon Wellesley. United Kingdom, 1943. War, Drama. 88. Synopsis. Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow.
Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later, a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Germans without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
