Dark Journey

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Starring: Vivien Leigh (Madeleine Godard), Conrad Veidt (Baron Karl von Marwitz), Joan Gardner (Lupita), Anthony Bushell (Bob Carter), Ursula Jeans (Gertrude)

Director: Victor Saville

Producer by: Alexander Korda

Opened: London, March 28, 1937; USA, April 2, 1937

Reissued: in 1953 as The Anxious Years

American Distributor: United Artists

Synopsis: written by Cynthia Molt: "In this espionage drama, Madeleine Godard is a double agent, whose loyalties lie with the French and Allies. She owns a dress shop in World War I Stockholm, Sweden, and travels for her business to France, in order to buy more merchandise. Baron Karl von Marwitz, who is head of the German Secret Service in Sweden, meets Madeleine and falls in love. Keenly aware of her activities, he follows her, in a submarine, on a final mission to France, stops her ship, and boards it, assisted by German officers. A British warship sinks the German U-boat. The result is Karl becomes the prisoner."

Vivien Leigh Society wrote: "General Opinion- A good film making attempt which fails to overcome an involved plot. Conrad Veidt is creditable but Vivien Leigh is more successful in putting on record the fact she could project exceedingly well years before her "GWTW" success. Everyone concerned with the making of this production deserved better material. However, it's worth a look-see should it ever come your way."

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