The Spy in Black

6.4
The Spy in Black
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Directed by: Michael Powell
Overview
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Reviews (2)
Peter McGinn (Rated: 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 p...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 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 d...
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