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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.
The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905–1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s.
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger.Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going!
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger US title: The Pursuit of the Graf Spee: 1957 Ill Met by Moonlight: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for Rank Organisation Film Productions (and Vega Productions) US title: Night Ambush: 1959 Luna de Miel: Michael Powell Production for Suevia Films-Cesáreo González (Spain)/Everdene (GB) a.k.a ...
Contraband, directed by Michael Powell, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson – Convicted Woman, starring Rochelle Hudson and June Lang; Convoy – directed by Pen Tennyson, starring Clive Brook, John Clements (UK) Crimes at the Dark House, directed by George King, starring Tod Slaughter –
This category contains films which were either written, produced and/or directed by the British-based film-makers Powell & Pressburger, usually together but also to cover their solo work. As such, it should not be moved to anything like Films directed by Powell and Pressburger or it won't cover many of the films listed. Because they were such a ...
Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez: Fantasy adventure: Outbreak of World War II caused this to be finished in the US. Three Silent Men: Daniel Birt: Sebastian Shaw, Derrick De Marney, Patricia Roc: Crime: Tilly of Bloomsbury: Leslie S. Hiscot: Sydney Howard, Jean Gillie, Michael Wilding: Comedy: Two for ...
The Spy in Black (US: U-boat 29) is a 1939 British spy 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 ...