I See a Dark Stranger

Bridie Quilty is a young Irishwoman, proud and angry at the English. While the Second World War is going on she travels to Dublin. There she meets a man called J. Miller who talks her into working for German intelligence. With the information she obtains, Bridie enables a German agent to escape. But the appearance of a British officer, David Baynes, complicates everything. Frank Launder made the film as soon as the war ended. It mixes spy tension with comedy and declares its heroine neither right nor wrong; where Bridie's anger comes from and where that anger takes her are both shown. Ireland's neutrality in the war is the film's background. Deborah Kerr plays Bridie and Trevor Howard plays Baynes.