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List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.96 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 1946 DVD Release : 21 January, 2003 |
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I See a Dark Stranger description You know Deborah Kerr as the finely regal actress of her later career; you may not know the vibrant, sexy redhead of younger days. I See a Dark Stranger should rectify that. (But do also see the Powell-Pressburger triumphs that bookend it, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Black Narcissus.) This delightful picture comes from the deft duo of Frank Launder and Sydney Gilliat, who excelled at comic suspense. Kerr plays Bridie Quilty, an Irish lass bred to loathe the English, who ends up spying for the Germans during World War II (only because they're against the English and the IRA wouldn't take her). This curious premise leads to delicious intrigue, as Bridie finds herself dumping a body off an English seacoast cliff and chasing around the Isle of Man with two bald policemen named Goodhusband and Spanswick. Trevor Howard tags along, but this is Kerr's show, and she is smashing. --Robert Horton |
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| I See a Dark Stranger is a curious if wildly entertaining British thriller from 1946, just after the war. It stars Deborah Kerr as Bridie Quilty, a rambunctious Irish girl fed on her father's tales of resisting the English in the teens. Growing a hatred towards the English in general (especially Oliver Cromwell, which becomes a recurring gag), she decides to join the IRA at the height of WWII. Naturally, instead of the IRA she ends up getting involved into all sorts of unfortunate Nazi plots and the fate of England more or less ends up in her hands. Trevor Howard, as a romantic interest she is forced to become involved with due to her duties as a spy, tails her throughout the movie. The movie is noteworthy mainly for its excellent, lovingly detailed script, which manages to balance humour with suspense (although not perfectly) as well as the superb performance of Deborah Kerr. She is ravishing at 25, and the film provides her an endless variety of scenes in which to strut her considerable acting talents. There is something of an overuse of first-person narration throughout the film, although that, and the many dark scenes, give the movie a creepy noirish feel (although it is by no means a noir). The charming Trevor Howard and the rest of the supporting cast are quite good too, although Kerr retains the spotlight throughout. | |
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