For Freedom
1940 · 87 min · Drama, War
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.
- Directors
- Castleton Knight, Maurice Elvey
- Released
- May 4, 1940
- Language
- English
Cast

Will Fyffe
Chief
Anthony Hulme
Steve
E. V. H. Emmett
Ted / Commentator

Guy Middleton
Pierre

Albert Lieven
Fritz

Hugh McDermott
Sam
Arthur Goullet
Ivan
Bill Russell
Adolf Hitler
J.E.T. Harper
Narrator (voice)
Patrick Dove
Self - Captain Patrick G.G. Dove, S.S. Africa Shell
Charles Pottinger
Self - Captain Charles Pottinger, S.S. Ashlea
F.M. Murphy
Self - First Officer F.M. Murphy, S.S. Tairoa
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