Contraband (1940)
1h 31m
Running Time
May 11, 1940Release Date

Plot.
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
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Cast & Crew.

Conrad Veidt
Capt. Andersen

Valerie Hobson
Mrs. Sorensen

Hay Petrie
Axel Skold

Joss Ambler
Lt. Cmdr. Ashton

Raymond Lovell
Van Dyne

Esmond Knight
Mr. Pidgeon

Charles Victor
Hendrick

Phoebe Kershaw
Miss Lang

Harold Warrender
Lt. Cmdr. Ellis

John Longden
Passport officer

Eric Maturin
Passport officer

Dennis Arundell
Lieman

Molly Hamley-Clifford
Baroness Hekla

Eric Berry
Mr. Abo

Paddy Browne
Singer in 'Regency'

Henry Wolston
First Danish Waiter

Julian Vedey
Second Danish Waiter

Sydney Moncton
Third Danish Waiter

Hamilton Keene
Fourth Danish Waiter

Leo Genn
First Brother Grimm

Stuart Latham
Second Brother Grimm

Peter Bull
Third Brother Grimm

Olga Edwardes
Mrs. Abo

Toni Gable
Miss Karoly

Desmond Jeans
First Karoly

Eric Hales
Second Karoly

J.P. Roberts
Hanson

Manning Whiley
Manager of 'Mousetrap'

Patrick Barr
Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Esma Cannon
Erik Skold's Niece

Erik Chitty
Cloakroom Attendant (uncredited)

Mark Daly
Taxi Driver

Cameron Hall
Naval Officer

Bernard Miles
Man Lighting Pipe

Nicholas Phipps
Man in Car

Johnnie Schofield
Waiter at the Cab Drivers Shelter

Michael Shepley
Man in Club

Torin Thatcher
Sailor

Ben Williams
Man Selling Torches

Milo O’Shea
Air Raid Warden / Air Raid Warden (uncredited)

Michael Powell
Director / Scenario Writer

John Corfield
Producer

Richard Addinsell
Original Music Composer

John Greenwood
Original Music Composer

Muir Mathieson
Music / Music Director

John Seabourne Sr.
Editor

Brock Williams
Scenario Writer

Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Media.



Details.
Release DateMay 11, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 31m
Content RatingNR
Budget$4,490,331
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
world war ii
smuggling
Wiki.
Contraband is a 1940 wartime spy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which reunited stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson after their earlier appearance in The Spy in Black the previous year. On this occasion, Veidt plays a hero, something he did not do very often, and there is also an early (uncredited) performance by Leo Genn.
The title of the film in the United States was Blackout. Powell writes in his autobiography, A Life in Movies, as saying that the U.S. renaming was a better title and he wished he had thought of it.
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