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They Met in the Dark
They Met in the Dark is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Karel Lamač and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard and Edward Rigby. The screenplay concerns a cashiered Royal Naval officer and a young woman who join forces to solve a murder and hunt down a German spy ring. The film features a single song sung by Phyllis Stanley, "Toddle Along" (Ben Frankel, Moira Heath). The film is very loosely based on the 1941 novel The Vanishing Corpse by Anthony Gilbert.
Plot
Commander R. F. Heritage is dismissed from the Royal Navy during the Second World War after being found guilty of losing some top secret documents.
More details
| author | Anatole de Grunwald |
|---|---|
| director | Karel Lamač |
| editor | Terence Fisher Winifred Cooper |
| genre | comedy thriller |
| keywords | batman bbc blackpool burn dance academy enemy agent female agent file get together hide liverpool lose morning navy officer police station royal navy second world war secret plan string surround top secret world war |
| musicBy | Benjamin Frankel |
| producer | Marcel Hellman |
| productionCompany | Excelsior Films |
| publisher | General Film Distributors |
| theme | comedy thriller |