The Spy in Black (1939)
- Directed by
- Michael Powell
- Genre
- spy film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 64 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A German spy is sent to a remote Scottish island during World War I to gather intelligence. He works with a local woman who has her own secret loyalties.
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What happens
The Spy in Black (US: U-boat 29) is a 1939 British spy film, and the first collaboration between the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They were brought together by Alexander Korda to make a First World War spy thriller novel, The Spy in Black by Joseph Storer Clouston, into a film. Powell and Pressburger eventually made over 20 films during the course of their partnership. The Spy in Black stars Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Sebastian Shaw, with Marius Goring and Torin Thatcher as two German submarine officers. Grant Sutherland, a minister in Powell's The Edge of the World (1937), appears in this film as a Scottish air raid warden. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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