The Spy in Black (U-Boat 29) (1939)

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7	Rating (26 ratings)
6.9	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Michael Powell

Starring (View all)

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

Agnes Lauchlan
Mrs. Matthews

Helen Haye
Mrs. Sedley

Written by

Emeric Pressburger
(screenplay)

Roland Pertwee
(scenario)

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14 years, 1 month ago at Jan 30 19:24

Citizen Caine

I reckon Bernhard Wicki must've seen this film before he made Morituri as there are quite a few parallels between his WWII film and this Orkney-set WWI thriller, the first collaboration between Powell and Pressburger. There's plenty on offer - German badass Conrad Veidt and the lovely June Duprez in a brief role to name a couple, as this tale of a German U-Boat captain on a mission to sink 16 Brit... read more

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When a German U-Boat captain is sent on a spying mission to the North of Scotland during World War One, he finds more than he bargained for in his contact, the local schoolmistress.