....if you want to blend in with the locals in an isolated community. After all, they will never suspect your heavy German accent! Conrad Veidt (Hardt) is the spy in black who has a mission to contact a collaborating schoolteacher on a Scottish island in order to sink a British naval fleet stationed there. The film does have an interesting setting and it is ok to watch but starts to drag a little towards the end. We also get cheap sets that take away any real tension during the climax, eg, the scene where Veidt is signalling from a ship to his German submarine not to fire as he is on the ship. It just looks like he is waving in a studio set with no-one else around him and it destroys any realism.
The beginning of the film is more interesting than the 2nd half as we have the film's set-up nicely played out with schoolteacher June Duprez (Anne) being given a lift by elderly Helen Haye (Mrs Sedley) and her suspicious looking chauffeur Mary Morris. Woah! Didn't expect that! You are immediately hooked into the story and Valerie Hobson takes over as the schoolteacher. It's a spy story so you can expect duplicity and tricks, however, there comes a point where the film just seems to keep on going and gets tiresome. A good beginning and an ok film to watch once.
The beginning of the film is more interesting than the 2nd half as we have the film's set-up nicely played out with schoolteacher June Duprez (Anne) being given a lift by elderly Helen Haye (Mrs Sedley) and her suspicious looking chauffeur Mary Morris. Woah! Didn't expect that! You are immediately hooked into the story and Valerie Hobson takes over as the schoolteacher. It's a spy story so you can expect duplicity and tricks, however, there comes a point where the film just seems to keep on going and gets tiresome. A good beginning and an ok film to watch once.