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
Michael Powell
Director / Scenario Writer
Milo O’Shea
Air Raid Warden / Air Raid Warden (uncredited)
John Seabourne Sr.
Editor
John Corfield
Producer
John Greenwood
Original Music Composer
Muir Mathieson
Music / Music Director
Richard Addinsell
Original Music Composer
Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Alfred Junge
Set Decoration / Production Design
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 (1940) is a 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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