The Spy in Black

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

Cast

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

Reviews

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...

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