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Watch: The Spy in Black 1939 123movies, Full Movie Online – When a German U-Boat captain is sent on a spying mission to the North of Scotland during World War One, he finds more than he bargained for in his contact, the local schoolmistress..
Plot: A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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Ratings:

	6.9/10 Votes: 2,225
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	N/A Votes: 46 Popularity: 4.65 | TMDB

Reviews:

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 sinisterness to the story that is gripping for just shy of 90 minutes before culminating in the sort of “gallant” ending that I suspect would not have been considered appropriate five years later.

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 Santa Anna’s Mexican army. Also, the ending is unusual compared to a modern thriller, where then good guy and bad guy usually square off and settle things in a climactic final scene.

But they do produce a plot twist, the norm for any spy movie, and it works. It is a short movie, well under 90 minutes, and it moves right along. The lack of color adds to the atmosphere of the film. The script is fine. Oddly, several lines are delivered in German with no translation, but obviously nothing critical is left out because of it. You can sort of get what they must be saying and they are brief bits of dialogue.

I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch this movie a second time, but I don’t regret the time spent watching it.

Good war thriller
Interesting in that it has a German lead, played by a German actor, who you actually sympathise with. Very much not a jingoistic war film, and not what you would expect. Veidt stands out in this as a an actor, his experience really shines through and he comes across as a more realistic, where some of the British actor comes across as 2D. Nice character study of a professional officer who sticks by his code, despite the circumstances. Atmospheric and well made, solid British war spy flick.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min), 1 hr 17 min (77 min) (USA), 1 hr 20 min (80 min) (Argentina)
Budget 4668069
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Thriller, War
Director Michael Powell
Writer J. Storer Clouston, Emeric Pressburger, Roland Pertwee
Actors Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw
Country United Kingdom
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,260.4 m (8 reels) (UK)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm