| The Spy in Black (U-Boat 29) | |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell |
| Written by | Roland Pertwee (scenario) Emeric Pressburger (screenplay) |
| Based on | The Spy in Black 1917 novel by J. Storer Clouston |
| Produced by | Alexander Korda Irving Asher |
| Starring | Conrad Veidt Valerie Hobson Sebastian Shaw |
| Cinematography | Bernard Browne |
| Edited by | Hugh Stewart |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa Muir Mathieson |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £47,300[1] |
The Spy in Black (US: U-boat 29) is a 1939 British film, and the first collaboration between the British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They were brought together by Alexander Korda to make the World War I spy thriller novel of the same title by Joseph Storer Clouston into a film. Powell and Pressburger eventually made over 20 films during the course of their partnership.
The Spy in Black stars Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson and Sebastian Shaw, with Marius Goring and Torin Thatcher as two German submarine officers. Grant Sutherland, a minister in Powell's The Edge of the World (1937), appears in this film as a Scottish air raid warden.