The Spy in Black
Today's U-boat terror makes this the year's timeliest picture!
Overview
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Cast & Crew
Conrad Veidt
as Captain Ernst Hardt
Sebastian Shaw
as Ashington
Valerie Hobson
as The School Mistress
Marius Goring
as Lieutenant Felix Schuster
June Duprez
as Anne Burnett
Athole Stewart
as The Rev. Hector Matthews
Agnes Lauchlan
as Mrs. Matthews
Helen Haye
as Mrs. Sedley
Cyril Raymond
as The Rev. John Harris
George Summers
as Captain Ratter
Reviews
Peter McGinn
Apr 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. …
CinemaSerf
Mar 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…
