Home / I See a Dark Stranger

I See a Dark Stranger

Year:

1946

Duration:

112 min | USA:98 min

Genres:

Drama | Thriller | War

IMDB rate:

7.2

Director:

Frank Launder

Awards:

1 win

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1946-07-04

Filming Locations: Devon, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

David Tomlinson

Deborah Kerr

Bridie Quilty

Trevor Howard

Lt. David Baynes

Raymond Huntley

J. Miller

Michael Howard

Hawkins

Norman Shelley

Man in Straw Hat

Liam Redmond

Uncle Timothy

Brefni O'Rorke

Michael O'Callaghan

James Harcourt

Grandfather

George Woodbridge

Walter

Garry Marsh

Capt. Goodhusband

Olga Lindo

Mrs. Edwards

Tom Macaulay

Lt. Spanswick

David Ward

Oscar Pryce

Harry Hutchinson

Chief Mourner

Harry Webster

Uncle Joe

Eddie Golden

Terence Delaney

Marie Ault

Mrs. O'Mara

Humphrey Heathcote

Sgt. Harris

John Salew

Man in Bookshop

Kenneth Buckley

Radio-Telephone Operator

Torin Thatcher

Police Constable

Everley Gregg

First Woman on Train

Kathleen Boutall

Second Woman on Train

Patricia Leonard

Liverpool Hotel Clerk (as Pat Leonard)

Katie Johnson

Old Lady on Train

Gerald Case

Col. Dennington

William G. O'Gorman

Danny Quilty (as W. G. O'Gorman)

Peter Cotes

Brash Young Man (as Peter Coates uncredited)

Frank Atkinson

Soldier in Pub (uncredited)

Dorothy Bramhall

ATS Corporal (uncredited)

Brenda Bruce

American Waitress (uncredited)

Clifford Buckton

Plainclothes Man on Train (uncredited)

Eddie Byrne

Irish Sailor Lookout (uncredited)

Hugh Dempster

Train Passenger (uncredited)

Arthur Denton

Mr. Cloggerty (uncredited)

Howard Douglas

Guest at Birthday Party (uncredited)

Leslie Dwyer

Soldier in Cafe (uncredited)

Bob Elson

Policeman (uncredited)

Josephine Fitzgerald

Second Irishwoman (uncredited)

Cameron Hall

Tynwald Court Usher (uncredited)

Kathleen Harrison

Waitress (uncredited)

Joan Hickson

Manx Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Peter Jones

Soldier in Pub (uncredited)

Patricia Laffan

Bit Part (uncredited)

Frank Ling

Soldier in Pub (uncredited)

Austin Meldon

Customs Officer (uncredited)

Kathleen Murphy

First Irishwoman (uncredited)

Doreen Percheron

Manx Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Norman Pierce

Dance MC (uncredited)

Tony Quinn

Galley Guide (uncredited)

Johnnie Schofield

Villager (uncredited)

Albert Sharpe

Irish Publican (uncredited)

Vi Stevens

Hotel Floor Cleaner (uncredited)

Harry Terry

Irish Smuggler (uncredited)

John Vere

Bit Role (uncredited)

Jack Vyvian

Village Postman (uncredited)

Jim Winters

Irish Policeman (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Film debut of Albert Sharpe.

Share this

First film of Liam Redmond.

Share this

Goofs

In Devon in June 1944, sunset would be after 10 pm (Double Summer Time), and indeed when the clock strikes 9 and Bridie suddenly ends her date with David we see them moving against a daytime sky. Yet in the prisoner scene occurring simultaneously, it's fully dark.

Share this

When David takes Bridie for a walk on their first date, she is wearing a plain dress in the initial wide shot but a striped dress in the closeups.

Share this

Quotes

Lt. David Baynes: Where'd you get this? D'you realize you can go to prison for forging an identity card? What made you do it?

Share this

Manx Hotel Manageress: I hope this doesn't mean that someone has escaped from the internment camp and is staying at the hotel.

Share this

Bridie Quilty: His hair is going grey, but it looks very nice the way he has it brushed. He's a faraway look in his eyes... a poet maybe. No, he's much too clean. And he puts his trousers under the mattress like Terence Delaney. Hasn't he the lovely nails? He's a gentleman, I think. I don't like being alone with a strange man at this time of night. He doesn't look that sort of man, of course, but how can you tell? Mr. McGee didn't look that sort of man, and Mr. Clogherty... was a terrible shock to me. Hmm, he's a traveller from abroad. Miller, Miller, that can't be an Irish name... he's English! Of all of the compartments of this train, I have to get into one with an Englishman. Why, I might have known it! Will you look at him, will you look at the cruel set of his jaw! You could mistake him for Cromwell!

Share this