They Met in the Dark
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They Met in the Dark is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Karel Lamač and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard and Edward Rigby.[1] The screenplay concerns a cashiered Royal Naval officer and a young woman who join forces to solve a murder and hunt down a German spy ring.[2] The film features a single song sung by Phyllis Stanley, "Toddle Along" (Ben Frankel, Moira Heath).[3] The film is very loosely based on the 1941 novel The Vanishing Corpse by Anthony Gilbert.
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Directed by | Karel Lamač |
Written by | Anatole de Grunwald Miles Malleson Basil Bartlett Victor McClure James Seymour |
Based on | The Vanishing Corpse by Anthony Gilbert |
Produced by | Marcel Hellman |
Starring | James Mason Joyce Howard Tom Walls |
Cinematography | Otto Heller |
Edited by | Winifred Cooper Terence Fisher |
Music by | Benjamin Frankel |
Production company | Excelsior Films |
Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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It was shot at Teddington Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Norman G. Arnold.