I Was a Spy

I Was a Spy Information

I Was a Spy is a 1933 British thriller film directed by Victor Saville and starring Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, and Conrad Veidt. Based on the 1932 memoir I Was a Spy by Marthe Cnockaert, the film is about a Belgian woman who nurses injured German soldiers during World War I while passing intelligence to the British.

I Was a Spy was also the first film dubbed in Poland (while there were earlier examples of films dubbed in Polish, they were recorded in Paramount studio in Joinville, France), released in 1935 as Siostra Marta jest szpiegiem, starring Lidia Wysocka as Martha Cnockhaert's voice. The screenplay was written by Edmund Gwenn

Cast

Madeleine Carroll as Martha Cnockhaert
Herbert Marshall as Stephan
Conrad Veidt as Commandant Oberaertz
Edmund Gwenn as Burgomaster
Gerald du Maurier as Doctor
Donald Calthrop as Cnockhaert
May Agate as Madame Cnockhaert
Eva Moore as Canteen Ma
Martita Hunt as Aunt Lucille
Nigel Bruce as Scottie
George Merritt as Captain Reichmann
Anthony Bushell as Otto

Reception

The film was voted the best British movie of 1932, and Madeleine Carroll's performance was voted the best in a British movie.

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