British Intelligence( 1939)

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Although the home of cabinet minister Arthur Bennett is a hotbed of spies, moles, and double agents, no one knows the true identity of notorious German spymaster Strendler.

Overview

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.

Top Billed Cast

Boris Karloff
Valdar
Margaret Lindsay
Helene von Lorbeer
Bruce Lester
Frank Bennett
Leonard Mudie
James Yeats
Holmes Herbert
Arthur Bennett
Austin Fairman
George Bennett
William Bailey
British Intelligence Agent
Louise Brien
Miss Risdon - Bennett's Secretary
Glen Cavender
Under Officer Pfalz
David Cavendish
Capt. Lanark
Joe De Stefani
German Officer
Carlos De Valdez
Von Ritter
Clarence Derwent
Milkman
Arno Frey
German Junior Officer
Frederick Giermann
Otto Kurtz
Lawrence Grant
Brigadier General
Carl Harbaugh
German Soldier
Sam Harris
Cabinet Minister
Winifred Harris
Mrs. Maude Bennett
Leyland Hodgson
Lord Sudbury
Stuart Holmes
Luchow - German Soldier
Willy Kaufman
German Corporal
Crauford Kent
Cmdr. Phelps
Morton Lowry
Lt. Borden
Lester Matthews
Henry Thompson
Frank Mayo
Brixton - Intelligence Agent
Paul Panzer
Peasant
John J. Richardson
Cockney Soldier
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink
German Officer
Hans Schumm
German Senior Officer
John Graham Spacey
Crichton - Intelligence Agent
Robert R. Stephenson
Cockney Soldier
Evan Thomas
Maj. Andrews
David Thursby
Agent Reporting Strengler's Identity
Frederick Vogeding
Baron Kuglar
Leonard Willey
Capt. Stuart
Maris Wrixon
Dorothy Bennett
Henry Zynda
German

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Jun 23 2022

On the face of it, this is just another wartime espionage story where the ending is never really in any doubt. Actually, though, the plot is a bit more interesting. Set during WWI, Margaret Lindsay ("Helene von Lorbeer") is sent to London, to the home of Cabinet Minister "Arthur Bennett" (Holmes Herbert), where she is to rendezvous with his already treacherous butler "Valdar" (Boris Karloff). Once there, we embark on the usual round of who to trust/not to trust storylines as they try to get hold of secret war plans. What stands it out a bit is that is has a certain propheticism about it: it isn...