Pool of London

A gritty crime thriller, set in London’s docklands and featuring a rare (for the time) mixed-race romance.

  • Director

    Basil Dearden

  • With

    Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Earl Cameron

  • UK 1951. 85min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

A naive Jamaican sailor on shore leave in London’s East End tries to help a friend, but becomes embroiled in a botched diamond robbery. Featuring the debut performance of Bermudian actor Earl Cameron – one of the leading black British movie actors working in 1950s and 1960s – Pool of London is one of the first British films to deal with mixed-race romance and gives an early eloquent voice to the Windrush generation.

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