![all posters](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w140/files/images/film/posters/000/391/391227_3272a9.jpg)
Directed by:
Michael PowellCinematography:
Freddie YoungCast:
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Esmond Knight, Harold Warrender, John Longden, Leo Genn, Peter Bull, Bernard Miles, Milo O'Shea, Deborah Kerr (more)Plots(1)
This is the tale of life in a British port in the first year of World War II. Spies and smugglers abound in the blackout and unreal shore life of the "phoney war" (before the shooting started). (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Conrad Veidt](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/421/163421241_2499ce.png)
Conrad Veidt
German Empire
Best movies:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Casablanca (1942)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
![Valerie Hobson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505279_27bb85.jpg)
Valerie Hobson
UK
Best movies:
Great Expectations (1946)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Hay Petrie
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Great Expectations (1946)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
![Esmond Knight](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505321_153cd2.jpg)
Esmond Knight
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Hamlet (1948)
![Harold Warrender](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/762/159762269_44574d.jpg)
Harold Warrender
UK
Best movies:
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Contraband (1940)
![John Longden](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/097/319/97319181_7d766c.jpg)
John Longden
Best movies:
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Stairway to Heaven (1946)
Blackmail (1929)
![Leo Genn](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/656/165656778_9e9462.jpg)
Leo Genn
UK
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Moby Dick (1956)
Quo Vadis (1951)
![Peter Bull](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272437_d12805.jpg)
Peter Bull
UK
Best movies:
![Bernard Miles](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/072/312/72312374_725763.jpg)
Bernard Miles
UK
Best movies:
Great Expectations (1946)
Big Time Operators (1957)
Moby Dick (1956)
![Milo O'Shea](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/509/161509470_a481cc.jpg)
Milo O'Shea
Ireland
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Murder in the Heartland (1993) (TV movie)
Sacco and Vanzetti (1971)
![Deborah Kerr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/469/162469525_8914c0.jpg)
Deborah Kerr
UK
Best movies:
Julius Caesar (1953)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
![Torin Thatcher](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000198_537415.jpg)
Torin Thatcher
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Great Expectations (1946)
Band of Angels (1957)
![Esma Cannon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/476/161476787_d1f888.jpg)
Esma Cannon
Australia
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
Contraband (1940)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Cameron Hall
UK
Best movies:
The Citadel (1938)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
San Demetrio, London (1943)
![Patrick Barr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/198/160198152_09969f.gif)
Patrick Barr
India
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
The Great Train Robbery (1978)
The Dam Busters (1955)
![Nicholas Phipps](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/352/160352691_8743a5.jpg)
Nicholas Phipps
UK
Best movies:
Summer Holiday (1963)
Doctor in the House (1954)
Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)
![Michael Shepley](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/747/160747146_cfb9be.jpg)
Michael Shepley
UK
Best movies:
Raymond Lovell
Canada
Best movies:
The Invaders (1941)
Contraband (1940)
Candlelight in Algeria (1944)