The Spy in Black
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| The Spy in Black | |
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 Conrad Veidt |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell |
| Produced by | Alexander Korda Irving Asher |
| Written by | Emeric Pressburger |
| Starring | Conrad Veidt Valerie Hobson Marius Goring Sebastian Shaw |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography | Bernard Browne |
| Editing by | Hugh Stewart |
| Release date(s) | August 12, 1939 UK |
| Running time | 82 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £47,300 (estimated) |
| IMDb profile | |
The Spy in Black (1939) was the first collaboration between the British filmmakers Powell & Pressburger. They were brought together by Alexander Korda to make this World War I spy thriller by Joseph Storer Clouston into a film, and went on to make over 20 more together. The Spy in Black was released in the US as U-Boat 29.
[edit] Story
Captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt), a World War I German submarine commander, is ordered to lead a mission to attack the British Fleet at Scapa Flow. He puts ashore on the Orkney Islands to meet his contact but finds more than he bargained for in the local schoolmistress (Valerie Hobson).
[edit] Criticism
- "Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Sebastian Shaw all give excellent performances in the topical film, The Spy in Black". --- Picturegoer & Film Weekly, October 14, 1939
[edit] External links
- The Spy in Black at the Internet Movie Database
- The Spy in Black reviews and articles at the Powell & Pressburger Pages
- The Spy in Black at the BFI's Screenonline. Full synopsis and film stills (and clips viewable from UK libraries).
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Powell and Pressburger The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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| 1930s | The Spy in Black | The Lion Has Wings |
| 1940s | Contraband | An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Forty-Ninth Parallel | One of Our Aircraft is Missing | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | The Volunteer | A Canterbury Tale | I Know Where I'm Going! | A Matter of Life and Death | Black Narcissus | The Red Shoes | The Small Back Room |
| 1950s | The Elusive Pimpernel | Gone to Earth | The Tales of Hoffmann | Oh... Rosalinda!! | The Battle of the River Plate | Ill Met by Moonlight |
| 1960s | Peeping Tom (not Pressburger) | They're a Weird Mob | Age of Consent |
| 1970s | The Boy Who Turned Yellow |
