Cheryl Herr writes: >Does anyone know of films about the Merchant Navy (British, Canadian, US) >up to 1960? British: 'Western Approaches' (UK 1943, dir. Pat Jackson; released in the US as 'The Raider') is possibly the most widely seen example from this period. It's a propaganda film about Merchant Navy convoys bringing lend-lease supplies to Britain in the teeth of attacks by U-boats. It was filmed entirely at sea, much of it with a three-strip Technicolor camera in a wooden dinghy. 'Pool of London' (UK 1951, dir. Basil Dearden), although not primarily 'about' the Merchant Navy (it's a thriller about a Merchant Navy seaman implicated in a murder while on leave in London) is also very interesting for a number of reasons, not least the film's candid treatment of the social tensions starting to brew resulting from the Attlee government's policy of encouraging mass immigration from the Carribbean. US: 'I Married a Communist' (US 1949, dir. Robert Stevenson) includes scenes of an industrial dispute among dock workers. Leo ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org