They Met in the Dark
| They Met in the Dark | |
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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 |
They Met in the Dark (also known as Dark End and Spionagering M ) is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Karel Lamač and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard and Edward Rigby. 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. The film features a single song sung by Phyllis Stanley, "Toddle Along" (Ben Frankel, Moira Heath). The film is very loosely based on the 1941 novel The Vanishing Corpse by Anthony Gilbert.