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Contraband (1940)
Director: Michael Powell
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Less stylish than The Spy in Black, this espionage thriller is more fun, with its tongue-in-cheek plot revelling in Hitchcockian eccentricities. Making atmospheric use of London under the blackout (including a tout hawking electric torches and gas mask cases at Victoria Station), it has its German agents operating from a warehouse packed with patriotic busts of Neville Chamberlain, while hero and heroine tour a series of bizarre nightclubs before rounding up the villains with enthusiastic help from a posse of Danish waiters and carousing rugby players picked up en route. Minor by Powell & Pressburger standards, but most enjoyable.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Powell
Producer: John Corfield
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight, Charles Victor, Peter Bull full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 92 mins
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