Top Billed 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
Agnes Lauchlan
Mrs. Matthews
Helen Haye
Mrs. Sedley
Cyril Raymond
The Rev. John Harris
George Summers
Captain Ratter
Hay Petrie
Engineer
Grant Sutherland
Bob Bratt
Robert Rendel
Admiral
Mary Morris
Chauffeuse
Margaret Moffatt
Kate
Kenneth Warrington
Commander Denis
Torin Thatcher
Submarine Officer
Esma Cannon
Maggie
Cyril Chamberlain
Bit Part (uncredited)
Bryan Herbert
Corporal Guarding POW's on Ferry
Skelton Knaggs
German Sailor looking for Capt. Hardt
Howard Marion-Crawford
German Officer in Kieler Hof Hotel
Bernard Miles
Hans - Hotel Receptionist
John Penrose
Newlywed at Kiel Hotel
Johnnie Schofield
Armed Guard of POWs on Ferry
Diana Sinclair-Hall
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Graham Stark
Bell Boy (uncredited)
Jack Lambert
Passport Official (uncredited)
Jeanne Macintyre
German Girl (uncredited)
Jack Sharp

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A review by Peter McGinn

Written by Peter McGinn on Tue Apr 27 2021

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 sce...