“Brave men who drove their gallant ship into a sea of death!”
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
George Baker
Bill Randall
Richard Attenborough
George Hoskins
Bill Owen
Birdie
Virginia McKenna
Helen Randall
Roland Culver
Maj. Fordyce
Bernard Lee
Customs Officer Brewster
Ralph Truman
Sir Richard
John Chandos
Raines
Harold Goodwin
Customs Officer
John Longden
Detective
The Ship That Died of Shame is a drama, crime, thriller film released in 1955 exploring themes of arms smuggling, world war ii, british noir, gunboat, illegal activity, smugglers. Directed by Basil Dearden, it stars George Baker, Richard Attenborough, Bill Owen. After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
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