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The Enemy Below
1957 · War
User Score
64 votes
Today's U-boat terror makes this the year's timeliest picture!
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Recommendations based on this film
Peter McGinn
April 27, 2021
This is a classic black and white spy thriller, thought of highly enough to be part of a national project to restore old films. The movie is entertaining, with a couple of departures from normal thrillers, I think (though I am not a follower of the genre). The bulk of the story is told from the perspective of the Germans, the enemy, as it were. It would be like the movie The Alamo being told from the perspective of S…
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CinemaSerf
March 28, 2022
Valerie Hobson steals the show here in this dark, tense, wartime espionage drama about a German U-boat captain (Conrad Veidt) sent to the Orkney Islands in WWI to gather intelligence on the British Grand Fleet. Released at the start of the Second World War, this first outing for Powell/Pressberger delivers in a much more ominous tone than that of a mere piece of propaganda. There is a depth to the writing and a sinis…
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