Watched this movie and I found it absolutely delightful. The story is about a double agent played by Vivien Leigh who is a dress shop owner in Sweden. I enjoyed the ingenious manner they used dresses to provide spy information and how the first part of the movie you believe the Vivien Leigh character to be a German spy. During her travels she meets Conrad Veidts character and we also she their courtship. Yes I have seen this movie with the drama and romance before but what makes it wonderful is the performances of the leads. You can see Ms Leighs beauty and how she commands ones attention every moment she is in the scene as her on camera presence is electrifying. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and so should you.

Passable romantic spy yarn. Vivien Leigh looks as lovely as ever. Conrad Veidt is good but the chemistry with Leigh is just not there, in my opinion. It's also hard to buy Veidt as a suave ladies man. He's much more believable as a villain. Joan Gardner was the film's biggest standout as the temperamental Lupita. Sexy and alluring, I'm surprised she wasn't a bigger star. She provides all of the movie's oomph and humor, though her role is sadly small.It's all very dry and serious, which is fine considering the subject matter. I mean, I don't expect a comedy from WWI spy story, especially on the eve of WWII breaking out. However, it suffers from a lack of excitement. The romance is unexciting and passionless. Even the war stuff is unexciting. It's not a great film. However, it is competently put together and the charisma of the leads and the aforementioned Joan Gardner make it worth seeing once. Fans of Vivien Leigh will probably enjoy it more than the average viewer. She does quite well in the part, my other reservations about the film aside.

Conrad Veidt and Vivian Leigh play spies for Germany and Britain respectively during WWI. Eventually, the two meet and fall in love--a serious problem since they are on opposite sides and SHOULD try to kill each other! The film poses the question of what to do in such a situation--obey your heart or your patriotism.This film features one of the oddest romantic pairings I can think of off the top of my head. While I love Conrad Veidt and think he's a seriously under-appreciated actor, I just couldn't get over the idea of him having a romance with a young Vivian Leigh. He was older and perhaps too sophisticated---all I know is that I couldn't easily believe this combination. In addition, I am not a huge fan of this sort of film. While it was made pretty well, it just didn't engage me. This is not to say you won't like it--just don't believe anyone who would give this very run of the mill film a 10. The action, acting and direction were all fine--just not all that distinguished and I feel that the film is best described as a decent time-passer.

Reading through a few of the comments on "Dark Journey", I'm struck by one reviewer in particular who states that Vivien Leigh is better here than in "Gone With The Wind". Granted, the guy's a big Leigh fan, bit what was he thinking?? I too am a huge Leigh fan (she's my favourite actress), but I am not so biased as to not acknowledge that this is a bad film. "Dark Journey" is probably the dullest film Leigh ever starred in, and definitely the least incoherent.The film revolves around a British spy (Leigh) falling in love with a German (Conrad Veidt) at the height of WW1. From there on in the plot is extremely confusing, clumsily plotted and of little interest. Directed by Victor Saville, it is obviously low budget, and I don't hold that against the film, but the writing is all over the shop. A less puzzling, simpler screenplay instead of trying to create a huge complex plot would have worked wonders for this little film. Vivien Leigh herself admitted she had no idea what was going on in the film, so how the heck are we meant to know? Veidt and Leigh are pretty good, getting the best out of the material they can, but they just don't work together as a couple (i.e they have no chemistry). Leigh looks gorgeous in the costumes and is pleasingly focused and quiet, yet intense, her professional attitude and lack of posing setting her apart from all the other young ingénues at that point. There are a few nice action sequences in the film, but it's all just so confusing that you'll just want to give up on it.