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The Great John Ericsson (1937)
Directed by Gustaf Edgren
Overview
In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate ‘Merrimac’ and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the ‘Monitor’, a ship the Federation needs to win the war.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Victor Sjöström | Märta Ekström | Anders Henrikson | Sigurd Wallén | Hilda Borgström | Hasse Ekman | Kotti Chave | Carl Barcklind | Ivar Kåge | Marianne Aminoff | Edvin Adolphson | Jussi Björling | Olof Winnerstrand | Richard Lund | Knut Frankman | Nils Jerring