Michael Powell directs Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw and Valerie Hobson in this WWI thriller where a German U-Boat captain must make contact with a female spy on a Orkney island.

Powell’s first collaboration with Emeric Pressburger is a neat little thriller with twists, turns, sexiness and humanity. Hobson is particularly good as the agent that even we the audience, who surely can see everything, cannot trust. She has bristling chemistry with magnetic German silent film star Veidt. A solid rehash of the Hitchcock’s early talkies but with a plot switcheroo in the middle that will make you want to rewatch it again instantly.

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Perfect Double Bill: A Canterbury Tale (1944)

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