Story Line
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
“Today's U-boat terror makes this the year's timeliest picture!”
Top Cast
Conrad Veidt
Captain Ernst Hardt
Sebastian Shaw
Ashington
Valerie Hobson
The School Mistress
Marius Goring
Lieutenant Felix Schuster
June Duprez
Anne Burnett
Athole Stewart
The Rev. Hector Matthews
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Rating
6.5/ 10
Release Date
1939-08-03
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
WarThriller
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User Reviews (2)
Peter McGinn
7/10
•4/27/2021This 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 th...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•3/28/2022Valerie 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 Wor...