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Subgenre Sampler
I See a Dark Stranger (The Adventuress) (1946)- Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley… - Absorbing thriller with Deborah Kerr outstanding as a young Irish woman who despises England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.
Notorious (1946)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant - Sexy, suspenseful romantic thriller with Ingrid Bergman at her most radiant as an American spy who unwittingly falls in love with her contact, Cary…
Five Graves to Cairo (1943)- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich von Stroheim… - Rousing early outing for Billy Wilder; a nimble, well–executed piece of WWII propaganda exaggerating the exploits of a British corporal officer…
Across the Pacific (1942)- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor - Bogie and director Huston reunite with other MALTESE FALCON leads for a similarly toned WW2 spy adventure set on the eve of Pearl Harbour. Huston was…
Journey into Fear (1942)- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles… - Hitchcockian suspenser set around an American engineer's adventures in WW2 Turkey. Loaded down with a maze–like plot (written by star Joseph…
Spy Smasher (1942)- Dir. William Whitney
Feat. Kane Richmond, Sam Flint, Marguerite Chapman - Wartime serial adapted from the comic strip has twin brothers protecting democracy from the needle–nosed Nazi spys. 12 instalments on one…
Cottage to Let (1941)- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills… - Brit thriller focusing on an inventor in the business of bomb testing for the Air Ministry, whose supposedly innocent domestic staff is riddled with…
Man Hunt (1941)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders… - A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
Foreign Correspondent (1940)- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Joel McCrea, Laraine Day - On the eve of WWII, journalist Joel McCrea gets involved in European espionage, some classic Hitchcock set–pieces (esp. the Dutch windmill…
Ninotchka (1939)- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire… - “Garbo laughs!” proclaimed the ads for this sparkling romantic comedy, a first for its legendary star, Greta Garbo. She plays a Soviet agent who…
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