Coastal Command (film)
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| Directed by | J. B. Holmes |
| Produced by | Ian Dalrymple |
| Starring | Roger Hunter Charles Norman Lewis |
| Music by | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Cinematography | Teddy Catford (credited as Edward Catford) Fred Gamage Jonah Jones |
| Edited by | Michael Gordon |
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| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures (1944) (USA) |
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72 minutes (UK) 60 minutes (US) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Coastal Command is a 1943 British film made by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Information. The film, distributed by RKO, dramatised the work of RAF Coastal Command.
Coastal Command is a documentary-style account of the Short Sunderland and Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. The film includes real footage of attacks on a major enemy ship by Hudson and Halifax bombers based in Iceland.
In 1942, a Sunderland flying boat with Pilot Roger Hunter and Flight Sergeant Charles Norman Lewis as crew, set out on a patrol, flying out of their Scotland air base.
During the routine sea patrol, in which a convoy is spotted, the crew encounters and bombs a German U-boat.
The Sunderland's crew returns to England, mission accomplished, but with a wounded crew member aboard, who is in stable condition. After a visit to the hospital, the Sunderland crew is informed they will be re-deployed to West Africa, to begin a new mission.
Coastal Command was made under the supervision of Ian Dalrymple, with the full cooperation of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy in the Second world War. The participants in the film were active RAF officers, NCOs and aircrew, and RN officers. The film featured pilot Roger Hunter and Flight Sergeant Charles Norman Lewis. On 25 August 1942, Lewis was killed on a flight that Prince George, Duke of Kent was undertaking as a morale-boosting mission to Iceland.
Filming for Coastal Command took place at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire where an RAF Operations Room set was constructed for the Ministry of Information. Location photography also took place at RAF Bowmore and RAF Port Ellen, Glenegedale, Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, where Short Sunderland units were operating.
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