San Demetrio London

1943

Action / Adventure / Drama / War

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 659 659

based on true story

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Plot summary

Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.

Director

Robert Hamer Photo
Robert Hamer

Top cast

Norman Williams Photo
Norman Williams as Youngster
Robert Beatty Photo
Robert Beatty as 'Yank' Preston
Ralph Michael Photo
Ralph Michael as 2nd. Officer Hawkins
Mervyn Johns Photo
Mervyn Johns as Greaser John Boyle
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898.71 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 37 min
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1.63 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles us  cz  dk  gr  es  hr  hu  it  no  nl  pt  ro  ru  sv  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Ok, so much of this is clearly filmed

Ok, so much of this is clearly filmed in a great big water tank at Ealing studios against a filmed backdrop that all too often gives that game away, but there’s still the essence of a story of tenacity and courage that is well portrayed here as the oil tanker “San Demetrio” finds itself looking the wrong way down the barrel of the 11-inch guns of the Nazi battleship “Scheer”. Badly damaged and left to the elements, the crew are ordered to abandon ship but after roaming around in the violent Atlantic for two days they happen upon their erstwhile home - and it’s still afloat! Lead by their second officer (Ralph Michael) and engineering chief (Walter Fitzgerald) the men decide their chances aboard are greater than their chances at sea, and so they set about seeing if they can get the ship to the safety of the Clyde. This was made at the height of the war, so of course there’s a certain propagandist element to this depiction of a true story, but that doesn’t detract from the tension that Charles Frend manages to imbue the film with, nor from the solid performances from a stable of recognisable British stalwarts whose job it was was to convince the war-weary audiences of the UK that we were will still fighting, and winning, against what might have seemed to be impossible odds. It’s a tale that conveys just how perilous these convoys were to sail in and to try to protect and the monochrome photography works well in conveying a sense of the cold, the wet, the dark and the danger as these frequently amateur mariners tried to get to grips with their human and more natural and equally unforgiving foes.
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Reviewed by chico-8 8 / 10

Worthwhile

San Demetrio, London gives an interesting account of a British Oil Tanker which was attacked and abandoned by her crew, only to find the ship stayed afloat. Good performances and an interesting perspective, as the film was released during WW2.

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