I Was a Spy (1933) 

**No Spoiler** The worst thing about this film is the title which could be pasted on any espionage flick. The film deserves better. Madeline Carroll's face is as legible as a book-- marvelous. I had never heard of her. This film is based on an autobiography. Huge cast. Believable exterior scenes. Involves use of Chlorine Gas during WW1. Absolutely worth watching.

This was of course a fictionalised version of the life of Edith Cavell,a British nurse who nursed British,French and German soldiers in Belgium during the early part of the First World War.She was executed by a German firing squad in 1915. Her story is not the most common in history but is certainly amongst the bravest.She was of course not the only nurse in Belgium to aid both sides of the wounded,simply the most distinguished and now forgotten after 100 years of history.

Excellent classic, thank you

Excellent movie. Thank you.

Great cast. Madeleine Carroll soon to be in 39 Steps Herbert Marshall and always sinister later the baddie in Foreign Correspondent. Conrad Veight is superb.

She is so strong and convincing. I had no idea this film even existed.

As Kate commented. The title is akin to naming Buckingham Palace a building. Beautiful Madeleine Carroll sets the bar high for acts to follow. Thank you for bringing this film to You Tube.

Edmund Gwenn was Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street.

Thinking most of the people in this film were born in the 1800s.

My goodness, she was absolutely gorgeous. Those tear sparkling eyes. Incredible. 👀👀👀🥺🥺🥺

These films are the history of the Past.

Great movie loves develop under the war and the chemistry of the stars Herbert marshal and Madeline Carroll was superb

How on earth did they get the tracking shot on a stone street without any extraneous camera movement?! There wasn't track on the ground to be seen and gimbals weren't used yet? It's at 14:40. And for 1933 it's an incredible shot. Heck, for 2022 it's incredible.

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worth watching.

A very wonderful dramatisation, beautifully acted by Madeleine Carroll and Herbert Marshall....thank you.

Excellent portrayal of the times, conditions and tough-choices One must make in such a scenario - one that has indeed happened many-times throughout History. …I found this excellent, the acting and directing extremely emotive and effective. Thank-You!

Great classic thank you for keeping these classics alive

It's interesting How creative the director was on this film .

Herbert Marshal who lost his left leg to a German sniper in 1917 at the 2nd Battle of Arras on the Western Front

A closely veiled warning movie about the rise again of Germany and the Nazis.

Good movie.

Unfortunately the blood and tears will always flow, there will never be an end.

A very,very well acted movie.Thank you,for sharing it.

This movie definitely hit me in the feels a few times.

That was amazing. What an amazing woman

Great movie! Bag PIPES will always be the joyous sound of freedom!

Great spy work here.

A very grand war story. Thank you🙏

They should do a remake of this movie as a great story and probably more people will watch a newer version rather than an old black and white which is sad in a way as there are a lot of great black and white movies.

Wonderful old movie!

With in my Heart & Soul I find love and empathy for All the different people in the human race, Often I wonder if I was Reincarnated in the family or tribes of these people, may GOD Bless us All.

Thank you for the great movie. ❤

Six mins Doctor Watson!

Great cast I’m sure this is a very good movie. Thanks for sharing.

🥰 Thank you 👍 Good movie 👍 🎥🎬 Sept . 28 , 2023

Excellent film with a heavyweight cast of acting notables---Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt and Gerald DuMaurier. Madeleine Carroll is a most elegant (that aristocratic Voice) and capable actress...more than just a "pretty face". One sees the great intelligence Hitchcock recognized and effectively mobilized in his early films. A shame that Her name seems to be falling into a bit obscurity as deserves to be better known among 21st century audiences. I particularly liked her in The General Died at Dawn (36), another war adventure / spy film as the naive daughter of a munitions runner who matures fast. What's so remarkable about Carroll's biography and this film is that she did indeed suspend her Hollywood career during WWII to work as a Front Line Red Cross Nurse. So it becomes almost "biographical". She was highly decorated for her devotion to service. I wonder if these film roles (Blockade, 1938) inspired her that there was more to one's life than being a "glamour gal".

Eva Moore The Old dark house.'No beds, they cant have beds!'

I love Marshall and Veidt. Especially Conrad Veidt! He's a great actor and sexy as can be, except as a Nazi, although he plays it very well.

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Feels like they took the premise of this story to make the comedy series Allo Allo. There have been several comedy series that took a piss out of a serious events in history.

Beyond prescient The next war was so much worse.

This is the earliest movie where I have heard the Lord's name blasphemed.

Id like to see a film about how Belgium treated people in their colonies.

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VERY LOW VOLUME....!!!!!!!!!!!

☆☆☆☆☆ 🙏 rose

I'm not complaining, but I sort of wonder why Angela Lansbury claps or slaps her ta tas 3 times with both hands at about 5 minute mark?

Stop watching when misuse God's Name