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THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE

By Guy RITCHIE

CAI CHANG INTERNATIONAL INC. - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, TAIWAN

Comedy - Completed 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Comedy, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Guy RITCHIE
- Cast
- Henry CAVILL, Eiza GONZÁLEZ, Alan RITCHSON, Alex PETTYFER, Hero FIENNES TIFFIN, Babs OLUSANMOKUN, Henrique ZAGA, Til SCHWEIGER, Henry GOLDING
- Synopsis
- In late 1941, during World War II the United Kingdom is struggling to halt Nazi Germany's attempts to take over Europe, with London regularly suffering bombing runs at the hands of the Luftwaffe. With their supply and aid ships constantly sunk by German submarines, Brigadier Colin Gubbins, with the indirect backing of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, prepares to initiate Operation Postmaster, an off the books black-ops sabotage mission intended to disrupt the Nazis' U-boat resupply operation on the Spanish-controlled island Fernando Po. While SOE agents Marjorie Stewart and Richard Heron depart by train, Gubbins enlists Gus March-Phillips to assemble a ground team to destroy the Italian supply ship Duchessa d'Aosta and two tugboats attached to it.
  
  Using the neutral Swedish fishing trawler Maid of Honor, Gus and his allies, Graham Hayes, Freddy Alvarez, and Danish naval officer Anders Lassen (the only non-British subject to be awarded the Victoria Cross), begin the slow sail to Fernando Po. Upon discovering that SOE saboteur Geoffrey Appleyard, whom Gubbins had sent ahead on the assumption that Gus would show interest in wanting him on the team, was captured by Gestapo agents, they divert course to a Nazi-controlled section of the Canary Islands for a rescue mission.
  
  Meanwhile, arriving early on Fernando Po, Marjorie and Heron use the latter's 'illegal' gambling hall to recruit backup for Gus' team while Marjorie seduces Heinrich Luhr, the SS commander in charge. Upon learning that the Duchessa intends to depart three days ahead of schedule, Gus has his crew sail through a British naval blockade of Nazi-occupied West Africa despite knowing they'll be arrested should their unauthorised mission be discovered.