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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The Spy wants more than a drag of a cigarette...]]
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4	From the first collaboration between Creator/MichaelPowell and Emeric Pressburger comes the British war thriller, ''The Spy in Black'' (1939). It stars Creator/ConradVeidt, Valerie Hobson, Maruis Goring, and Sebastian Shaw.
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6	During UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, a German U-Boat commander is sent on a secret mission to infiltrate the Scottish Orkney Islands to destroy the British naval fleet stationed there, but an English school teacher will soon thwart his plans.
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8	It was released in the U.S. as ''U-Boat 29''. The score was composed by Music/MiklosRozsa.
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11	!!The film shows the following tropes:
12	* DidNotGetTheGirl: Hardt makes it obvious that he's very interested in Tiel, but she rejects his advances. It's obvious why when we find out she's playing for the other team, Britain.
13	* EvilWearsBlack: Our eponymous spy is always in black. Not only for symbolic purposes, but also he steals away in the dead of night and black is the best disguise.
14	* TheFilmOfTheBook: Adapted from a 1917 novel of the same name by Scottish author J. Storer Clouston.
15	* GoingDownWithTheShip: Captain Hardt decides to go down with the ferry when he finds out that his German U-Boats have fallen for a trap and escaping the sinking ferry would be futile.
16	* ImpersonationGambit: Fraulein Tiel is actually Jill Blacklock, not the real German operative.
17	* TheInfiltration: Hardt steals away into the night on a smuggled motorcycle to the school and is hidden away by the Fraulein Tiel.
18	* NaziProtagonist: Although the film is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne, Hardt (Veidt) is coded as a Nazi. And he's our German protagonist: we see him receive his mission and eventually see him being betrayed by who he thought were loyal Germans.
19	* OfficerAndAGentleman: Hardt is a gentleman especially when he decides to go down with the ferry.
20	* OutGambitted: The Germans planned to kill the school teacher heading to the restricted island and replacing her with a lookalike German. However, the British caught wind of this plan and replaced the German with their own operative to foil the plan.
21	* TheReveal: Fraulien Tiel is actually British and is married to the “disgraced” navy officer, Ashington (Shaw). They were both sent to foil the German’s plan to destroy the British fleet.

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