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Atlantic Ferry is a British film of genre Drama directed by Walter Forde released in USA on 7 february 1942 with Michael Redgrave
Atlantic Ferry (1941)
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Add to a movie listAtlantic Ferry (alternate U.S. title: Sons of the Sea) is a 1941 British film starring Michael Redgrave and Valerie Hobson. It was made at Teddington Studios.
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In the 1830s, two brothers set out to prove the worth of steamships by being the first to cross the Atlantic from Britain to the United States.Actors
Michael Redgrave
(Charles MacIver)
Valerie Hobson
(Mary Ann Morison)
Hartley Power
(Samuel 'Sam' Cunard)
Griffith Jones
(David MacIver)
Margaretta Scott
(Susan Donaldson)
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