Western Approaches (film)

Western Approaches is a Technicolor 1944 docufiction film directed by Pat Jackson.

It is the fictional account of 22 sailors adrift in a lifeboat. They are able to signal (Morse code) their position. A nearby U-boat receives the signal along with a friendly vessel which changes course to rescue the sailors aboard the lifeboat. The Captain of the U-Boat decides to wait for any rescue vessel so it may pounce on it with its 2 remaining torpedoes. Before the rescue ship arrives, the U-Boat's periscope is spotted by the lifeboat. The U-Boat fires its 2 torpedoes just as the rescue vessel is alerted to the U-Boat's presence. Much of it was shot in the Irish Sea. Sailors rather than professional actors were used. (source: The Times, 4.7.2011)

Trade papers reported that the film among those "doing well" at the British box office in 1945.^[1]

References

External links

• Western Approaches at the Internet Movie Database
• Review of film at Variety