Contraband

Michael Powell

Contraband (1940) is a wartime spy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which brought stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson together again after their success in The Spy in Black the previous year. The title of the film in the United States was Blackout. Powell is quoted in his book A Life On Film, that the US renaming was a better title and he wished he had thought of it. Many people find it refreshing to see Conrad Veidt playing a hero character; something he ... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]

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