--- title: 'I Was a Spy (1933)' type: 'film' director: 'Victor Saville' released: '1933-01-01' runtime_minutes: 89 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/i-was-a-spy-1933' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024161/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # I Was a Spy (1933) 1933 · 89 min · Drama, Thriller · United Kingdom ## Synopsis I Was a Spy is a 1933 British thriller film directed by Victor Saville and produced by Michael Balcon. It stars Madeleine Carroll as Marthe Cnockaert, Herbert Marshall, and Conrad Veidt. Based on the 1932 memoir I Was a Spy by Marthe Cnockaert, the film is about her experiences as a Belgian woman who nursed German soldiers during World War I while passing intelligence to the British. The film was produced by Gaumont British Picture Corporation with Woolf & Freedman Film Service and Fox Film Corporation distributing in the United Kingdom and the United States respectively. ## Credits - **Director:** [Victor Saville](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-saville) - **Screenplay:** [W. P. Lipscomb](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-p-lipscomb) - **Original Music Composer:** [Louis Levy](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-levy) - **Producer:** [Michael Balcon](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-balcon) - **Director of Photography:** [Charles Van Enger](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-van-enger) ## Cast - [Anthony Bushell](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-bushell) - [Gerald du Maurier](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerald-du-maurier) - [Nigel Bruce](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-bruce) - [Madeleine Carroll](https://cinepixo.com/people/madeleine-carroll) as Marthe Cnockaert - [Herbert Marshall](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-marshall) - [Martita Hunt](https://cinepixo.com/people/martita-hunt) - [Conrad Veidt](https://cinepixo.com/people/conrad-veidt) - [Edmund Gwenn](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-gwenn) - [Donald Calthrop](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-calthrop) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/i-was-a-spy-1933 Film facts: Wikidata (Q5979693); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.