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Purely Joyful Movie!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

During World War I the spy Helene von Lorbeer goes to London to stay in the home of the cabinet minister Arthur Bennett as a refugee and meets with fellow agent Valdar who works there. Slowly it is revealed what the true mission is and the identity of the German spy master Strendler whom the British secret service have been after for years. It's a decent well written film and although set in WWI there are obvious parallels with WWII. Pointedly so. The director keeps the film moving on apace up to the explosive climax.Boris Karloff is excellent as Valdar and Margaret Lindsay, always an under rated actor I've always thought, is good as Helene. They are supported by familiar and able actors;Leonard Mudie,Holmes Herbert and Bruce Lester. Paul Panzer plays a peasant. It was based on a 1918 play and mainly takes place in one house reflecting its stage origin though there are outdoor scenes.A good film with an interesting plot and capable acting.

Copyright 1 January 1940 by Warner Bros Pictures, Inc. New York opening at the Globe: 11 February 1940. U.S. release: 29 January 1940. No Australian theatrical release. 5,446 feet. 60 minutes.U.K. release title: "Enemy Agent".SYNOPSIS: This time, Boris Karloff essays the German spy who has secreted himself in the household of a cabinet member, whilst Margaret Lindsay is the British agent who sets out to expose him. NOTES: Third (and final) re-make of "Three Faces East". COMMENT: Incredibly, this is a remake of that awful movie, "Three Faces East". Needless to say, Lee Katz's script could not help but be an improvement, while director Terry Morse has it all over a sorrowful hack like Roy Del Ruth. But oddly, Boris Karloff, despite the character's more plausible motivation and sharper dialogue, offers little in the way of charisma. In fact, we often have the impression that Karloff is trying so hard not to imitate "the man you love to hate" that he goes into reverse! Bring back Erich von Stroheim!

this film is just terrible to watch. from the very beginning to the end, every character and his or her intention is so obvious. the British military and government officials are simply stupid, so stupid that they would discuss every important secret plan at home or any place, they never suspect the people around them might be a German spy, albeit a spy ring surrounding them. how could it possible that some important war plan papers would kept their homes, discuss so openly? the screenplay writer and the director seem to treat viewers like on an elementary basis, everything is right in the open and in front your eyes. those German spies, well, they are so conveniently inserted into British military base, British government officials, and there are high ranking person in the German spy ring and those naive British military and bureaucrats simply trust them without any alert. this film is just too stupid to be praised like most of the viewers here. i only see couple of the viewers who are conscious enough to consider this film stupid and boring. this film's weakest point is allowing all the German spies to be introduced to the viewers one by one, and allowing the viewers to know how stupid is on the British side. there's no suspenses, no guessing, no surprises at all throughout the whole film, so lame and so shallow. i should not waste my time to write a review for such lousy movie, but by seeing so many blind praises and so many viewers so easily to be satisfied and pleased, i have to speak out against them.

There aren't that many World War I spy movies around. At least I haven't seen that many. Hitchcock's "Secret Agent," (1936) Sternberg's "Dishonored" (1931) and Garbo's "Mata Hari" (1932) are the only three great classics I have seen. Blake Edwards's "Darling Lili" was a waste of celluloid.Made at the beginning of World War II (1940), there are clear reference to the war situation at that time in this movie. The talk about madmen taking over the war is clearing about Hitler and not the Kaiser.The movie showed bombing raids against London from both zeppelins and aircraft. I assumed that these were fictional, but I was surprised to find out that there were a few zeppelin raids and 22 aircraft raids against England in the war.Acting by Boris Karloff (creepy and effective) and Margaret Lindsay (subtle and clever) make the picture a lot of fun to watch. Although the plot is overly complicated to follow and jumps around a bit too much, there is a surprising amount of tension built up over who are the real German spies.Some people have complained about how easy the spies had it in the movie. They seem to just need to lurk a bit and they overhear all the war secrets they need. We should remember that people were more trusting back then and the idea of an organized spy ring was quite fanciful. Today we have an ultra security conscious society.This is a fun and easy to watch 62 minutes. I would recommend it for any spy film fan and any Boris Karloff fan.I wonder if the name for Harry Potter's arch-villain, Valdemar, had anything to do with the name of Karloff in this movie, Valdar.