Pool of London
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Directed by Basil Dearden, 1951. This remarkable London film tells the story of two seamen who become entangled in a smuggling racket. Bold for the time-period in casting a Black actor (Earl Cameron) as the romantic lead, the film is directed with typical rigor by one of Britain’s most underrated talents, Basil Dearden. Part of the series Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960.