The Last Adventurers

Grimsby
1937
Sound
78m

Drama and romance by the North Sea in this tale of family dispute

Scottish trawlerman Jeremy Bowker is rescued from the North Sea by Grimsby fisherman John Arkell in this 1930s feature film. Taken on as bosun by Arkell, Bowker finds himself caught in the middle of a family dispute and falling in love with Arkell's daughter.

Scottish trawlerman Jeremy Bowker is rescued from the North Sea by Grimsby fisherman John Arkell. Taken on as bosun by Arkell, Bowker finds himself caught in the middle of a family dispute, as well as falling in love with Arkell's daughter.

Forgotten Features

A hand-picked assortment of hard-to-see British feature films, featuring mischievous mermaids, murderous minors and military mayhem.

Thanks to decades of DVD and online publishing, not to mention archive revivals and restorations, more of Britain’s screen heritage is available today than ever before. You might even be forgiven for imagining that the whole of British cinema is now just a click away.

But much of that history - from the silent era to the relatively recent past - remains out of reach. This selection from the vaults, hand-picked by the BFI's curators, goes some way to remedying that. These fresh rediscoveries offer something for all tastes: whether futuristic fantasy, battle-of-the-sexes comedy, subversive provocation or an Indian-British rarity.