A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Cast
Conrad Veidt
Captain Ernst Hardt
Sebastian Shaw
Ashington
Valerie Hobson
The School Mistress
Marius Goring
Lieutenant Felix Schuster
June Duprez
Anne Burnett
Athole Stewart
The Rev. Hector Matthews
Agnes Lauchlan
Mrs. Matthews
Helen Haye
Mrs. Sedley
Cyril Raymond
The Rev. John Harris
George Summers
Captain Ratter
Hay Petrie
Engineer
Grant Sutherland
Bob Bratt
Robert Rendel
Admiral
Mary Morris
Chauffeuse
Margaret Moffatt
Kate
Kenneth Warrington
Commander Denis
Torin Thatcher
Submarine Officer
Esma Cannon
Maggie
Cyril Chamberlain
Bit Part (uncredited)
Bryan Herbert
Corporal Guarding POW's on Ferry
Skelton Knaggs
German Sailor looking for Capt. Hardt
Howard Marion-Crawford
German Officer in Kieler Hof Hotel
Bernard Miles
Hans - Hotel Receptionist
John Penrose
Newlywed at Kiel Hotel
Johnnie Schofield
Armed Guard of POWs on Ferry
Diana Sinclair-Hall
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Graham Stark
Bell Boy (uncredited)
Jack Lambert
Passport Official (uncredited)
Jeanne Macintyre
German Girl (uncredited)
Jack Sharp
Unknown
Crew
Michael Powell
Director
Roland Pertwee
Scenario Writer
Emeric Pressburger
Screenplay
J. Storer Clouston
Story
William Hornbeck
Supervising Film Editor
Hugh Stewart
Editor
Bernard Browne
Director of Photography
Patrick Jennings
Assistant Director
Irving Asher
Producer
Alexander Korda
Producer
Vincent Korda
Supervising Art Director
A.W. Watkins
Sound Director
John W. Mitchell
Boom Operator
Miklós Rózsa
Original Music Composer
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
Frederick Pusey
Art Direction
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