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| Contraband (Blackout) | |
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&sq=albert einstein&lang=en&file=File:Contraband_poster.jpg) Poster from trade screening 20 March 1940 | |
| Directed by | Michael Powell |
| Written by | Scenario: Michael Powell Brock Williams |
| Screenplay by | Emeric Pressburger |
| Story by | Emeric Pressburger |
| Produced by | John Corfield |
| Starring | Conrad Veidt Valerie Hobson |
| Cinematography | Freddie Young |
| Edited by | John Seabourne |
| Music by | Richard Addinsell John Greenwood |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Anglo-American |
Release dates |
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Running time | 92 minutes (UK) 80 minutes (U.S.) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £35,000[1] |
| Box office | 1,385,365 admissions (France)[2] |
Contraband is a 1940 wartime spy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which reunited stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson after their earlier appearance in The Spy in Black the previous year. On this occasion, Veidt plays a hero, something he did not do very often, and there is also an early (uncredited) performance by Leo Genn.
The title of the film in the United States was Blackout. Powell writes in his autobiography, A Life in Movies, as saying that the U.S. renaming was a better title and he wished he had thought of it.
- ^ Kevin Macdonald (1994). Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter. Faber and Faber. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-571-16853-8.
- ^ Box office information for France in 1945 at Box Office Story