This story U-boat commander Conrad Veidt plotting an attack on the British fleet during WWI is well-paced and dramatically photographed. Best-remembered as the first collaboration between director Michael Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger, this has the style and substance of material that master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock would have been attracted to. There is a tragic quality to the final moments as Veidt realizes he is doomed, and this is led even greater poignancy by the knowledge that three weeks after this film was released, Great Britain would once again be at war with Germany. War is all hell.
Review of U-Boat 29
