Dark Journey
Dark Journey is a 1937 British spy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh and Joan Gardner Written by Lajos Bíró and Arthur Wimperis, the film is about two secret agents on opposite sides during World War I who meet and fall in love in neutral Stockholm.
Plot
In the spring of 1918, the final year of World War I, a German U-boat stops a Dutch freighter on its way to Stockholm in neutral Sweden. The Germans board the ship, identify one man as a Belgian spy, and take him prisoner. One of the passengers questioned is attractive Swiss dress shop owner Madeleine Goddard, who is returning from a business trip to Paris, where she purchased dresses for her boutique.
More details
| author | Lajos Bíró |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Stockholm |
| director | Alexander Korda Victor Saville |
| editor | Hugh Stewart Lionel Hoare |
| events | seamanship |
| genre | romance |
| keywords | arrest business trip concealed weapon deserter double agent dress shop end even french spy german army german navy german spy id imperial german army imperial german navy médaille militaire mi6 murder one night q-ship secret service shop owner spring true identity u-boat wait war veteran whirlwind romance world war i |
| musicBy | Richard Addinsell |
| producer | Alexander Korda Victor Saville |
| productionCompany | London Film Productions |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | spy trick war |