Contraband

Contraband (1940)

Stop that man and woman! His mission is deadlier than that of the enemy in the sky. Her beauty is a dangerous weapon of war!

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Date of release
1940-05-11
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Thriller, War, Drama
Director
Michael Powell

Casting

Interesting facts

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.

Production

Contraband was intended as a followup to Powell and Pressburger's The Spy in Black, which was filmed at the end of 1938, but was not released by Alexander Korda for almost a year. The current film was in production from 16 December 1939 through 27 January 1940 at Denham Film Studios, with location shooting in London at Chester Square in Belgravia, and in Ramsgate in Kent. It was the first prestige picture from British National Pictures.

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