Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime run through the Mediterranean—Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Haifa—under the gaze of the Mediterranean Fleet (HMS Barham, Malaya, Warspite). After the Ionian was sunk by a German mine on 29 November 1939 en route from Crete to Hull, the film was recut and released as Cargoes.
Humphrey Jennings
Director
A Plastic Ocean75%
Sherman's March67%
Public Speaking70%
180° South72%
The Class of ‘9271%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Tabloid64%
Directed by John Ford70%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Night Will Fall76%
Being James Bond77%
That's Entertainment!73%
Above Majestic73%
McQueen74%
28 Up75%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Voyeur59%
Elstree 197661%
