Contraband (Powell, 1940): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.30pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger season at BFI Southbank. The film is also being shown on October 23rd with an introduction by Miranda Gower-Qian, BFI Inclusion Lead.
Time Out review:
Less stylish than The Spy in Black, this espionage thriller is
more fun, with its tongue-in-cheek plot revelling in Hitchcockian
eccentricities. Making atmospheric use of London under the blackout
(including a tout hawking electric torches and gas mask cases at
Victoria Station), it has its German agents operating from a warehouse
packed with patriotic busts of Neville Chamberlain, while hero and
heroine tour a series of bizarre nightclubs before rounding up the
villains with enthusiastic help from a posse of Danish waiters and
carousing rugby players picked up en route. Minor by Powell &
Pressburger standards, but most enjoyable.
Tom Milne
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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