I See a Dark Stranger
I See a Dark Stranger released as The Adventuress in the United States is a 1946 British World War II spy film with touches of light comedy, starring Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard. It was written and produced by the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, with Launder directing.
Plot
It's 1937, in a tiny rural village in Ireland. Young Bridie Quilty has grown up listening to nightly orations from her father regaling pub crowds with his bravery in the Irish Revolution fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with famous radical Michael O'Callaghan in the 1916 Easter Rising. By 1944 Mr. Quilty has passed, and Bridie turns 21, determined to leave on her May birthday for Dublin and carve a life of her own.