SPECTACULAR "CONVOY."
Spectacular naval warfare broke out at the Ealing Studios recently when big naval scenes were filmed for the new Michael Balcon production, "Convoy," with which director Pen Tennyson continues to make rapid progress, and which will be released throughout New Zealand in the near future by British Empire Films (N.Z.), Ltd. With smoke pouring across the studio floor, and realistic shells raining on the cruiser commanded by Clive Brook, Tennyson obtained some vivid shots of naval warfare at its fiercest. The sequence was one showing a fight between the British cruiser and the German pocket-battleship, Deutschland, after the rescue of a tramp steamer which had been captured by the Nazis and used as a decoy. The battle not only forms one of the high lights of this new subject—which deals with the adventures of a flotilla convoying a fleet of merchantmen across the North Sea —but provides one of the most important scenes in the development of the story. "Convoy," which is being made with the co-operation of the Admiralty and the encouragement of the Ministry of Information, has a cast headed by Clive Brook and John Clements.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1940, Page 18
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