"U-Boat 29" Timely Drama Of Submarine Warfare
A PART from rare newsreels, “U-Boat 20,” shortly to be seen at the King’s Theatre, is the only film which has been permitted to give to the world a really authentic glimpse of submarine warfare. The film was being made at Denham studios, where another Columbia thriller. “Clouds Over Europe.” was produced, when war broke out. and in view of its increased timeliness, every effort was made to speed up production and hasten its distribution throughout the world. Starred in “U-Boat 29” is Conrad Veldt, and featured with him are Valerie Hobson, whom “Time,” the American news magazine, once described as “looking and loving like Loretta Young” and Sebastian Shaw. Veidt plays the part of a German U-Boat commander who is sent on a secret mission to a lonely island in the Orkneys, there to make contact with a secret agent posing as a village schoolmistress. The island proves to l>e one of the bases of the British Grand Fleet, and Veldt’s task is to engineer the destruction of a number of capital ships. Plot and counter plot follow fast as spy and counter spy endeavour to outwit each other.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 5
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197"U-Boat 29" Timely Drama Of Submarine Warfare Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 5
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