Dark Journey (1937)

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The unorthodox teaming of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt is but one of the many pleasures of the 1937 spy yarn Dark Journey. Leigh plays a Stockholm dress-shop owner during World War I, who, being a neutral, is permitted to travel unmolested to and from France. Veidt plays a supposedly disgraced… More The unorthodox teaming of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt is but one of the many pleasures of the 1937 spy yarn Dark Journey. Leigh plays a Stockholm dress-shop owner during World War I, who, being a neutral, is permitted to travel unmolested to and from France. Veidt plays a supposedly disgraced German officer who is actually head of his country's secret service. The two fall in love, despite the fact that Leigh has a secret as well: she is a double agent, sympathetic towards the Allied cause. During one of Leigh's voyages to France, her ship is captured by a German U-boat. Veidt swaggers on board, threatening to sink the ship if Leigh is not turned over to him. But the circumstances reverse themselves, and Veidt finds himself Leigh's prisoner--a circumstance that is not altogether unpleasant for him. When originally released in England, Dark Journey bore the title The Anxious Years. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 22 min.
Directed By: Victor Saville
Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery & Suspense

Critic Reviews

Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
Relationships as the continuous encoding and decoding of objects and gestures
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rescued from the doldrums by the polished performances of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt.
Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com
Wow.

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Cast

Conrad Veidt
as Baron Karl von Marwitz
Vivien Leigh
as Madeleine
Anthony Bushell
as Bob Carter

Margery Pickard
as Colette
Eliot Makeham
as Anatole Bergen
Sam Livesey
as Maj. Schaffer

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