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Dark Journey (1937)During World War I, a German spy and a British spy meet and fall in love. Director:Victor Saville |
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Joan Gardner | ... | |
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Ursula Jeans | ... | |
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Margery Pickard | ... | |
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Eliot Makeham | ... |
Anatole Bergen
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Austin Trevor | ... |
Dr. Muller
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Sam Livesey | ... |
Major Schaeffer
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Edmund Willard | ... |
General Berlin of German Intelligence
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Charles Carson | ... |
Head of Fifth Bureau
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Philip Ray | ... |
Faber
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Henry Oscar | ... |
Swedish Magistrate
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Laurence Hanray | ... |
Cottin
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Cecil Parker | ... |
Captain of Q-Boat
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Madeline Goddard is a smart young woman who owns a fashionable dress shop in neutral Sweden during World War One. Though she is grateful to avoid the fighting, the courageous and stunningly pretty Madeline feels she should be doing more for her native France. She volunteers to work as an intelligence agent, smuggling maps and other documents within the fashionable garments she ships to wealthy customers in London. Madeline's activities are so successful that British intelligence soon comes to rely on her as their main pipeline for information. At about this time, a British official in Sweden asks her to cultivate the friendship of Baron Karl Von Marwitz, a tall, distinguished-looking German officer who is in charge of counter-espionage activities at the German embassy. Unknown to Madeline, the baron has been sent to Sweden for the express purpose of discovering and eliminating the top British spy who has been smuggling out German war plans. When Madeline and Karl meet, each recognizes... Written by Dan1863Sickles
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
2 July 1937 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Anxious Years See more »Company Credits
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Madeleine Goddard: [distressed] I don't know! Karl never talks... I mean, I haven't got that close to him yet. The Baron is hard to know. Sometimes I wish...
Head of Fifth Bureau: [Sympathetic] Rough job for a woman, pretending to be in love with a man.
[pause]
Head of Fifth Bureau: You *are* still pretending, aren't you?
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The story takes place in 1918, but all of Vivien Leigh's fashions and hairstyles, as well as those of the other women in the cast, are strictly up-to-the minute 1937 modes. See more »Quotes
Head of Fifth Bureau: [Madeline is questioned by British intelligence] You've had months! What can you tell us about Von Marwitz? What about the U-boat fueling operation?Madeleine Goddard: [distressed] I don't know! Karl never talks... I mean, I haven't got that close to him yet. The Baron is hard to know. Sometimes I wish...
Head of Fifth Bureau: [Sympathetic] Rough job for a woman, pretending to be in love with a man.
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Head of Fifth Bureau: You *are* still pretending, aren't you?
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This film features superb direction by Victor Saville, a magnificent cast led by Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh, outstanding production design and costumes while a complex script blends high adventure and romance; a scenario which perfectly makes order from wartime chaos and faith from despair. By combining varying themes and by a masterful use of extras, Saville clearly brings forth one of the better British efforts of the 1930s.