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I See a Dark Stranger

  • 1946
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  • 1h 38m
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I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.
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A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.

  • Director
    • Frank Launder
  • Writers
    • Frank Launder
    • Sidney Gilliat
    • Wolfgang Wilhelm
  • Stars
    • Deborah Kerr
    • Trevor Howard
    • Raymond Huntley
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    1.6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Frank Launder
    • Writers
      • Frank Launder
      • Sidney Gilliat
      • Wolfgang Wilhelm
    • Stars
      • Deborah Kerr
      • Trevor Howard
      • Raymond Huntley
    • 45User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win

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    Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard in I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
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    Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr
    • Bridie Quilty
    Trevor Howard
    Trevor Howard
    • David Baynes
    Raymond Huntley
    Raymond Huntley
    • J. Miller
    Michael Howard
    • Hawkins
    Norman Shelley
    • Man in Straw Hat
    Brefni O'Rorke
    Brefni O'Rorke
    • Michael O'Callaghan
    Brenda Bruce
    Brenda Bruce
    • American Waitress
    James Harcourt
    • Grandfather
    Liam Redmond
    Liam Redmond
    • Uncle Timothy
    William G. O'Gorman
    • Danny Quilty
    • (as W. O'Gorman)
    Garry Marsh
    Garry Marsh
    • Capt. Goodhusband
    Tom Macaulay
    • Lieut. Spanswick
    Tony Quinn
    • Galley Guide
    Olga Lindo
    Olga Lindo
    • Mrs. Edwards
    John Salew
    • Man in Bookshop
    Harry Hutchinson
    • Chief Mourner
    David Ward
    David Ward
    • Oscar Pryce
    George Woodbridge
    George Woodbridge
    • Walter
    • Director
      • Frank Launder
    • Writers
      • Frank Launder
      • Sidney Gilliat
      • Wolfgang Wilhelm
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    • Trivia
      The film was to have featured Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as their characters Charters and Caldicott. However, the actors demanded more screen-time than the producers were prepared to give them. The roles played by Garry Marsh (Goodhusband) and Tom Macaulay (Spanswick) are thinly disguised versions of Charters and Caldicott.
    • Goofs
      In Devon in June 1944, sunset would be after 10 p.m. (Double Summer Time), and, indeed, when the clock strikes 9 and Bridie suddenly ends her date with David, they are seen moving against a daytime sky. Yet in the prisoner scene occurring simultaneously, it's fully dark.
    • Quotes

      J. Miller: You should visit England one day. You may change your mind.

      Bridie Quilty: There's no need. I've an aunt there who has told me all about it. She says the upper classes are cringing and always moaning about their troubles, and the lower classes are arrogant and think they own the Earth.

      J. Miller: I thought it was the other way round.

      Bridie Quilty: My aunt runs a servants' registry office.

      J. Miller: Ah!

      Bridie Quilty: There's no "ah" about it. She hates the whole lot of them, and so do I. My father fought for Ireland against the English in 1916, and if I ever get the chance I shall do the same.

      J. Miller: For a subject of a neutral country, aren't you being a little belligerent?

      Bridie Quilty: There's nothing belligerent about it. It's entirely a question of which side I'm neutral on.

    • Connections
      Featured in WatchMojoUK: Top 10 British Movies We Want to See Remade (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Kelly the Boy from Killane
      Irish folk song

      Sung by the men in the pub

    User reviews45

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    7/10
    Very enjoyable if you switch off your brain
    Though many Irishmen voluntarily joined the British forces in World War II, the country's official neutrality must have aroused a great deal of resentment and anger among the British fighting for their lives at home and abroad. This movie could be seen as an attempt at reconciliation, not by trying to justify the Irish policy as a response to centuries of British oppression but by characterizing Irish super-patriots as eccentric and silly. Nothing succeeds with the English like making them feel superior.

    Deborah Kerr was seldom so tender, vulnerable, and utterly lovely as in her role as a girl brought up on her family's semi-mythical stories of rebellion and guerrilla fighting who, with World War II under way for several years, decides to join the IRA. But before she manages to do that, she encounters a German spy who apparently takes about five minutes to convince her that her that she would do just as well serving her enemy's enemy. Since she declares that, although living in a remote rural area, she reads newspapers and is up to date, one cannot consider her a backward eccentric. So--if we think about it--we have to assume that she is indifferent to Nazi terror, murder, and genocide. In other words, she is a monster. Kerr plays her as a romantic, over-enthusiastic young girl who sees herself as a character in a girls' adventure book, but it's not enough to give her a pass. She is, after all, supposed to be 21, not six. Even at sixteen she would be expected to have more morals and sense.
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    • Release date
      • February 3, 1947 (Sweden)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • The Adventuress
    • Filming locations
      • County Wexford, Ireland(on location)
    • Production company
      • Individual Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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