Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: George Baker, Richard Attenborough, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna, Roland Culver,
Plot: After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Crime, class and noir in ’50s British cinema
Three black-and-white British films reflect social change in the post-war years with varying degrees of success in excellent new 4K restorations. Basil Dearden’s The Gentle Gunman (1952) addresses the history of English oppression in […]