{"id":16079,"date":"2011-03-01T17:37:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T00:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16079"},"modified":"2021-01-14T23:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T06:05:05","slug":"dark-journey-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16079","title":{"rendered":"Dark Journey (1937)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;So our pretty little dressmaker is a spy!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Poster-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Poster-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Poster-88x128.jpg 88w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Poster.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring World War One, a French seamstress (Vivien Leigh) working as a spy in Sweden falls in love with a German spy (Conrad Veidt) pretending to be a deserter.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conrad Veidt Films<\/li>\n<li>Play Adaptations<\/li>\n<li>Spies<\/li>\n<li>Star-Crossed Lovers<\/li>\n<li>Vivien Leigh Films<\/li>\n<li>World War One<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary labels this early Vivien Leigh film &#8212; based on a play by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lajos_Biro\">Lajos Bir\u00f3<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;pretty confusing&#8221; but &#8220;classy and romantic&#8221;. He argues that we &#8220;don&#8217;t mind Leigh falling for a German spy in pre-Nazi days&#8221;, calls out 22-year-old Leigh&#8217;s &#8220;lovely&#8221;, &#8220;smart, delicate performance&#8221;, and notes that this film provides one with an opportunity  to see &#8220;Veidt in a role that contributed to his romantic-idol reputation &#8212; before he became a villain in Hollywood&#8221;. (To be honest, I wasn&#8217;t aware he ever possessed such a reputation.) Unfortunately, while Leigh is indeed truly &#8220;lovely&#8221; here, the label &#8220;pretty confusing&#8221; doesn&#8217;t begin to do justice to the film&#8217;s needlessly opaque screenplay, which even Leigh herself professed to not completely understand. And while Leigh and Veidt do possess a surprising amount of chemistry together, not nearly enough is made of their tentative forbidden romance. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Romance.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Romance-1024x785.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Romance-1024x785.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Romance-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Romance-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Romance-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Romance-352x270.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Romance.png 1337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most likely Peary includes this title in his book simply because it&#8217;s one of Leigh&#8217;s all-too-rare screen roles (and her first leading role) &#8212; but it&#8217;s not must-see for all film fanatics. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vivien Leigh as Madeleine<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Leigh.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Leigh-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Leigh-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Leigh-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Leigh-128x99.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Leigh-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Leigh-350x270.png 350w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Dark-Journey-Leigh.png 1325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo &#8212; though fans of Leigh will doubtless want to check it out. Easily available for viewing online, given that it&#8217;s fallen into public domain. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028767\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/18974\/dark-journey#articles-reviews?articleId=337206\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So our pretty little dressmaker is a spy!&#8221; Synopsis: During World War One, a French seamstress (Vivien Leigh) working as a spy in Sweden falls in love with a German spy (Conrad Veidt) pretending to be a deserter. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Conrad Veidt Films Play Adaptations Spies Star-Crossed Lovers Vivien Leigh Films World War One Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary labels this early Vivien Leigh film &#8212; based on a play by Lajos Bir\u00f3 &#8212; &#8220;pretty confusing&#8221; but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16079\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63390,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16079\/revisions\/63390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}