Alien at the Movies

Six Minutes to Midnight

It’s “Spy vs Spy” meets “The Fugitive” in this pre-WWII  spy drama. In the summer of 1939, the mysterious disappearance of a teacher at an Anglo-German private finishing school on the English coast sends Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard) to interview with the headmistress Miss Rocholl (Judi Dench) for the vacant position. The 20 girls being educated there happen to come from Nazi High Command families. It’s a predictable but entertaining & suspenseful plot as suspicions arise & another dead body turns up. 

Alien gives it 2½ “Whitehall 1154” stars out of 4.