The Spy in Black
Today's U-boat terror makes this the year's timeliest picture!
Overview
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
- Budget
- $4,700,000
- Production
- Irving Asher Productions, London Films Productions
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Cast
Conrad Veidt
Captain Ernst Hardt
Sebastian Shaw
Ashington
Valerie Hobson
The School Mistress
Marius Goring
Lieutenant Felix Schuster
June Duprez
Anne Burnett
Athole Stewart
The Rev. Hector Matthews
Helen Haye
Mrs. Sedley
Cyril Raymond
The Rev. John Harris
Hay Petrie
Engineer
Robert Rendel
Admiral
Mary Morris
Chauffeuse
Torin Thatcher
Submarine Officer
Esma Cannon
Maggie
Cyril Chamberlain
Bit Part (uncredited)
Bryan Herbert
Corporal Guarding POW's on Ferry
Skelton Knaggs
German Sailor looking for Capt. Hardt
Howard Marion-Crawford
German Officer in Kieler Hof Hotel
Bernard Miles
Hans - Hotel Receptionist
John Penrose
Newlywed at Kiel Hotel
Johnnie Schofield
Armed Guard of POWs on Ferry
Crew
- Director
- Michael Powell
- Producers
- Irving Asher,Alexander Korda
- Cinematography
- Bernard Browne
- Composer
- Miklós Rózsa
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Peter McGinn
April 27, 2021
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 perspective of the Germans, the enemy, as it were. It would be like the movie The Alamo being told from the perspective of Santa Anna’s Mexican army. Also, the ending is unusual compared to a modern th…
CinemaSerf
March 28, 2022
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 delivers in a much more ominous tone than that of a mere piece of propaganda. There is a depth to the writing and a sinisterness to the story that is gripping for just shy of 90 minutes before culminat…