The Spy in Black (1939) Reviews & Ratings
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The Spy in Black reviews
The Spy in Black holds a 6.4/10 average from 67 TMDB ratings.
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…
— Peter McGinn (7/10)
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 sini…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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