A Michael Balcon Production
POOL OF LONDON
A Film By Basil Dearden
Starring Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renee Asherson, Moira Lister & Earl Cameron
Out Now on Blu-ray & DVD
London’s Docklands, the 1950s: two seamen step ashore from The Dunbar and into the POOL OF LONDON.
Dan MacDonald (Bonar Colleano: Dance Hall; The Man Inside) is a self assured and impetuous ladies’ man with a sideline in petty smuggling, whilst his friend and shadow, Jamaican Johnny Lambert (Earl Cameron CBE: Sapphire; Thunderball) is rather more shy and restrained.
Before their ship again vacates the docks, Dan becomes fatefully involved in a diamond heist and ends up framed for murder and Johnny falls in love with a white girl (Susan Shaw: Train of Events; It Always Rains on Sunday).
Directed by Basil Dearden (The Blue Lamp; Dead of Night), POOL OF LONDON was the first British-made film to depict an interracial relationship in the post- Windrush years.
Renée Asherson (The Cure for Love; The Magic Box) and Moira Lister (Another Shore; The Cruel Sea) also star alongside Colleano, Shaw and Cameron CBE, seen here in his acting debut and undoubtedly one of his finest on screen performances.
Special Features
• New Interview with Earl Cameron
• New Locations Featurette with Film Historian Richard Dacre
• Production Stills Gallery
To celebrate, we have 2 x Blu-ray copies of the film to give away courtesy of our friends at Studiocanal.
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