The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black

6.4/ 10

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62

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1939

Release Year

82 min

Runtime

War

Thriller

Overview

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

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Keywords

northern england

submarine

world war i

sea battle

german spy

british fleet

german navy

triple agent

torpedoed ship

orkney

counter-espionage

imposter

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Cast

Conrad Veidt

Conrad Veidt

Captain Ernst Hardt

Sebastian Shaw

Sebastian Shaw

Ashington

Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson

The School Mistress

Marius Goring

Marius Goring

Lieutenant Felix Schuster

June Duprez

June Duprez

Anne Burnett

Athole Stewart

Athole Stewart

The Rev. Hector Matthews

Agnes Lauchlan

Agnes Lauchlan

Mrs. Matthews

Helen Haye

Helen Haye

Mrs. Sedley

Cyril Raymond

Cyril Raymond

The Rev. John Harris

George Summers

Captain Ratter

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Reviews(2)

7.0avg rating

Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

April 27, 2021

7

7/10

This is a classic black and white spy thriller, thought of highly enough to be part of a national project to restore old films. The movie is entertaining, with a couple of departures from normal thrillers, I think (though I am not a follower of the genre). The bulk of the story is told from the p…

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 28, 2022

7

7/10

Valerie Hobson steals the show here in this dark, tense, wartime espionage drama about a German U-boat captain (Conrad Veidt) sent to the Orkney Islands in WWI to gather intelligence on the British Grand Fleet. Released at the start of the Second World War, this first outing for Powell/Pressberger d…

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