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