Contraband (1940)
- Directed by
- Michael Powell
- Genre
- spy film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 22 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 Danish ship captain gets caught up in a spy network while trying to clear his name during World War II. He and his wife work to outsmart Nazi agents in a blacked-out London.
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What happens
Contraband (U.S.: Blackout) is a 1940 wartime spy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which reunited stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson after their earlier appearance in The Spy in Black the previous year. On this occasion, Veidt plays a hero, something he did not do very often, and there is also an early (uncredited) performance by Leo Genn. The title of the film in the United States was Blackout. Powell writes in his autobiography, A Life in Movies, as saying that the U.S. renaming was a better title and he wished he had thought of it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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