Dark Journey (1937) [Thriller]

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“Dark Journey” is a 1937 British spy film directed by Victor Saville set in the First World War. Its plot concerns two secret agents on opposite sides, played by Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh, who fall in love.

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Directed by Victor Saville, produced by Victor Saville and Alexander Korda, written by Lajos Biró (play and screenplay) and Arthur Wimperis, starring Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh.

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Source: “Dark Journey (film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 29 December 2011. Web. 20 July 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Journey_(film).

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33 Replies to “Dark Journey (1937) [Thriller]”

  4. Using "semaphore" for sending messages is as risky as sending a homing pigeons and Smoke Signals.  Any way you send a 'secret' message, expect an interception. 

  8. I tell you, Downton Abbey had ruined my ability to suspend reality while watching some old movies. When I first started watching this I thought it was a WWII movie because of the clothes, which don't even REMOTELY look like anything that would have been worn during WWI! 😀

  9. A little tough to follow for me in the beginning. Perhaps the language of old and variety of accents. Once I "got it", I got it and enjoyed this film very much. Thank you for the upload. Good story line well done. The Era had me confused a bit too. No worries…..

  11. IT'S AMAZING THAT THIS FILM &, THE FILM TITLED (( THE HOUSE ON 92TH STREET )) ARE BOTH ABOUT FEMALE GERMAN AGENTS &, BOTH OWN A BEAUTIFUL DRESS SELLING BUSINESS AS A FRONT .

  12. I love Mata Hari movies, and this one is pretty good, although my favorite is Von Sternberg's Dishonored with Marlene Dietrich (and a horribly miscast Victor McLaglen). Vivian Leigh is terrific and well matched with Conrad Veidt.  Dark and fine boned Vivian Leigh was compellingly beautiful.

  13. I'm looking for a black and white film from the mid 1930s about twin sisters who both love the same man.  The sisters decide to go sailing in their small sailboat and a sudden storm sinks the boat and one sister drowns.  The surviving sister is not the one the man is in love with and she pretends to be his lover.
    What is the name of that film ??????

  15. 31:20 – I really can't imagine spymaster generals translating code right in front of the agent who brought it! They could be a double agent. They could break under torture and give away secrets. That bothers me more than the glorious gowns being of the wrong era. A lot of fun, though — thanks.
    I saw another copy of this on YT (from the UK) that was blocked from my view in the US on copyrite grounds. Heads up.

  19. pretty good story but first thing I noticed too was that the film makers didn't do a very good job of trying to make it seem like WWI era – looks like 1937

  21. I found it quite amusing that the writers put the male lead as the head of Section 8, which in the American Military means you are getting a discharge because you are crazy lol.

  22. Great film so far, but I had to take a break from my “dark” laughter to comment on just how the "girl" laughter starting at
    minute 16 and thereafter sounds just like a brood of chickens frequently disrupted by someone stomping about in their midst. It might be the age of the sound recording further denigrated by transfer to video, but I wonder if it was
    then intentional. "Gurlz" back then were so very fungible en masse and marginalized and rendered shallower than tide pools. And in the presence of a "Baron" from Germany? Absolutely fawning for attention, I guess because in real life, their very survival from meal to meal depended upon the crumbs swept from the tables of the privileged wealthy white males who still dominate the .01%…

  23. Sadly enough, I got so bored by minute 34 that I've given up watching the remaining minutes. Life is way too short to waste time on an ancient and boring film.

  25. Absolutely fabulous underrated film : authentic , amazing acting and tremendous romantic chemistry between 2 pros : Conrad Veidt , and Vivien Leigh .,

  29. A great film, acting was excellent. Especially Vivien Leigh, impish and beautiful simultaneously. Hard to follow story at first but once it became clear exciting plot. If this had been a stage play I don't know how the ship scenes would happen. Thx for posting.

  30. IF YOU  EVER FORCED OLD PEOPLE TO  TAKE  DRUGS AFTER THEY SAID NO TO TAKING THE DRUG  ANY MORE SAY OUT LOUD " SATAN I GIVE YOU MY ETERNAL SOUL FOREVER. MY BODY AND SOUL  ARE YOURS TO KEEP . MY SOUL MY BODY FOR EVER."

  31. Thanks, enjoyed this movie! RE: historical anachronisms in this movie: +Kevin Lyons2 months ago "Yea but the producers had to get viewers in the seats to make money. Teenagers and young adults in '37 wouldn't have known authentic WW1 styles and probably didn't care."
    I disagree with this comment …. (oh we hold ourselves up to be so much more intelligent than those of past ages…)
    I think that today we have much more trouble with "time" issues; even the "Iliad" mixes much older "oral" stories with Homer's current concerns, aims, warfare methods,morals, brains versus brawn issues, etcetc etc., believe me , his audiences "knew"; I think folks in the 1930s probably did care, had close relatives & photos of WWI, family stories & deaths. and all the while, hearing Hitler on the radio at that time & in the news, gearing up for another round, must have been eerie, so If movies & magazines & radio were the only forms of news & social issues & fashion & "media", how wonderful the movies must have seemed, informing while inspiring, mixing past & present in ways we "moderns" find bothersome, they wouldn't have. Also,I love the "time" fact that V. Leigh would shortly begin filming another great struggle, the American war between the states, whose set/costumes were less anachronistic, I suppose, is noteworthy… what a great actress!

  32. Her voice is what I think is so wonderful!  She was a great beauty but the voice.  She had a sad ending in life.  If they could have turned the wind sound down a bit at the end it would have been easier to hear the dialog.  Particularly since the howling wind didn't seem to show itself with Any of the hats blowing off.  At that rate of gale there would Not have been a hat left on anyone's head!  LOL

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