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Dark Journey (1937)

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During World War I, a German spy and a British spy meet and fall in love.

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Joan Gardner ...
Anthony Bushell ...
Ursula Jeans ...
Margery Pickard ...
Eliot Makeham ...
Anatole Bergen
Austin Trevor ...
Dr. Muller
Sam Livesey ...
Major Schaeffer
Edmund Willard ...
General Berlin of German Intelligence
Charles Carson ...
Head of Fifth Bureau
Philip Ray ...
Faber (as Phil Ray)
Henry Oscar ...
Swedish Magistrate
Laurence Hanray ...
Cottin
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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2 July 1937 (USA)  »

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The Anxious Years  »

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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 »

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Baron Karl Von Marwitz: So our pretty little dressmaker is a spy! What will people say, an officer of the Kaiser like me and a woman like you, Madeline?
Madeleine Goddard: [smiling] They'll say, the poor girl couldn't help herself.
Baron Karl Von Marwitz: [serious] One false move could mean death for both of us. But death is nothing to what I feel for you.
[They kiss]
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Curious WWI story - early Vivien Leigh
9 September 2010 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Vivien Leigh fans won't want to miss "Dark Journey," a 1937 film starring the up and coming Leigh and Conrad Veidt. The film takes place during World War I in neutral Sweden, where a Swiss woman, Madeleine Goddard (Leigh) has a dress shop, a front for her spy activities on behalf of - the Germans? Or the French? She becomes involved with a German spy (Conrad Veidt) and is put in danger.

This film is a little confusing - it was hard to tell who was on what side and when. Both Leigh and Veidt are very good, but they deserved a better script.

Not a huge film, nothing like what would await Leigh in the U.S. a short time later. Worth seeing for her.


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