The Spy in Black
Alternate title(s): U-boat 29
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Date: January 01, 1939 to December 31, 1939
Dates Note: 1939
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Place of Origin: United Kingdom
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Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: a novel by J. Storer Clouston, adapted by Roland Pertwee
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Arrows of Desire: The Films of Powell & PressburgerDescription:
“I had no idea secret agent was such a comfortable profession,” remarks one to the other in Michael Powell’s highly charged (in every way) thriller set during World War I but, importantly, made in 1939. Conrad Veidt is riveting as a German submarine captain lodged in the remote Scottish Orkney Islands, from where he will attempt to sink the British fleet. Valerie Hobson is his captive, and he hers, in a quaint little house in a quaint little village. Powell and Pressburger’s first film as a creative duo, The Spy in Black is “literate, exciting, extremely well-crafted. . . . A Hitchcockian blending of humor and thrills” (William K. Everson).
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