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The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black

6,5 /10 (64 Votes)
1939 EN 82 min

Overview

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

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Release date

03/08/1939

Votes

64

Popularity

1.4

Today's U-boat terror makes this the year's timeliest picture!

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

82 min

Budget

$4,700,000

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Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

2021-04-27

⭐ 7

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 thriller, where then good guy and bad guy usually square off and settle things in a climactic final sc…

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-03-28

⭐ 7

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 culminating in the sort of "gallant" ending that I suspect would not have been considered appropriate five y…

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