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

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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