Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 27, 1941

Convoy (British production; R. K. O. release). The fog is everywhere. The hull of a ship slides out of it: before the stern is visible, the fog hides the hull. A whistle tears the softness with a shriek: the grey blanket settles down more softly than before. Scene: the North Sea, whose oily green waters, even in summer, look cold. Time: World War II. Action: the hushed, relentless pursuit and escape of Nazi and British ships, alternately each other's victims.

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