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The Enemy Below
Why this pick
Shared genres: Thriller.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1939 1h 22m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In March 1917, Captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt), a World War I German U-boat commander, is ordered to lead a mission to attack the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow. He sneaks ashore on the Orkney Islands to meet his contact, Fräulein Tiel (Valerie Hobson). Tiel has taken over the identity of a new local schoolteacher, Miss Anne Burnett (June Duprez), who German agents had intercepted en route to the island. Hardt finds himself attracted to her, but Tiel shows no interest. The Germans are aided by a disgraced Royal Navy officer, the former Commander Ashington (Sebastian Shaw (actor)) who, according to Tiel, has agreed to aid the Germans after losing his command due to drunkenness, and Tiel implies that she has slept with Ashington to obtain his cooperation.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Conrad Veidt
Captain Ernst Hardt
June Duprez
Anne Burnett
Sebastian Shaw
Ashington
Valerie Hobson
The School Mistress
Marius Goring
Schuster
Helen Haye
Mrs. Sedley
Cyril Raymond
The Rev. John Harris
Hay Petrie
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