I See a Dark Stranger

aka The Adventuress

(1947)

Drama / Suspense

98 minutes

Directed by Frank Launder

Cast:

Deborah Kerr as Bridie Quilty

Trevor Howard as Lieutenant David Baynes

Raymond Huntley as J. Miller

Michael Howard as Hawkins

Norman Shelley as Man in Straw Hat

Liam Redmond as Uncle Timothy

Brefni O'Rorke as Michael O'Callaghan

James Harcourt as Grandfather

George Woodbridge as Walter

Garry Marsh as Captain Goodhusband

Tom Macaulay as Lieutenant Spanswick

Olga Lindo as Mrs. Edwards

David Ward as Oscar Pryce

Harry Hutchinson as Chief Mourner

Harry Webster as Uncle Joe

This film is set in Ireland during 1944. Bridie Quilty is an ambitious woman who thinks all Englishmen are worthless. She wants to join the IRA, but finds no luck with that. A German spy enlists her and she is working at a bar close by a British military prison, using her good looks to catch the enemy. She becomes entangled with a British officer who has fallen for her, which leads to complications.  

I See a Dark Stranger - Trailer