Atlantic Ferry (1941) Online
After their state-of-the-art steamship the Gigantic sinks minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David takes a business-like approach and eventually joins forces with former rivals but decides the expensive gamble of steamships is not they way to go. Charles embarks on a different course -- sailing on a doomed ship to America to forge an alliance with Samuel Cunard. Eventually brothers are reunited in their bid to gain the mail contract from the British government, although their relationship might not last since each is in love with Mary, the daughter of one of their backers.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Michael Redgrave | - | Charles MacIver | |
Valerie Hobson | - | Mary Ann Morison | |
Griffith Jones | - | David MacIver | |
Hartley Power | - | Samuel 'Sam' Cunard | |
Margaretta Scott | - | Susan Donaldson | |
Bessie Love | - | Begonia Baggot | |
Milton Rosmer | - | George Burns | |
Frederick Leister | - | James Morison | |
Henry Oscar | - | Josiah Eagles | |
Edmund Willard | - | Robert Napier | |
Charles Victor | - | Tim Grogan | |
Frank Tickle | - | Mr. Donaldson | |
Leslie Bradley | - | Horatio Stubbs | |
Felix Aylmer | - | Bank President | |
Joss Ambler | - | Dr. Lardner |
Bessie Love has no lines in the 91-minute TCM print and appears briefly in the ballroom crowd scene in Boston near the end.
This film received its US television premiere on 17 September 2007 during the Turner Classic Movies festival of Warner Bros. films made in the UK at Teddington Studios.
Shown on TCM as Sons of the Sea (2015)
The film ends with archive footage of the launching of the Queen Elizabeth in 1938, with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother shown walking with her children, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.
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