Product Details

• Actors: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans
• Directors: Victor Saville
• Writers: Arthur Wimperis, Lajos Biró
• Producers: Victor Saville, Alexander Korda
• Format: Black & White, EP, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Madacy Records
• VHS Release Date: September 19, 1997
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303935109
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #428,191 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential video

Conrad Veidt (an early refugee of Hitler) and Vivien Leigh supply the chief interest in Dark Journey--they, and trying to follow what the hell is going on from scene to scene. During World War I, Stockholm in neutral Sweden is a hotbed of international espionage--an especially perplexing situation since everyone, regardless of nationality, speaks veddy British English. Madeleine (Leigh), a couturier with a Swiss passport, goes often to Paris to buy fashions, but really to collect troop-movement information for her employers, the German High Command. The vulpine Karl (Veidt) is a shameless playboy defector from Der Vaterland who's traded war-making for nightclub-hopping. However, if we strain, we remember that at the beginning of the film he seemed to be head of the German Secret Service. So really, these two work for the same side, right? And there will be no complications if they fall in love? You'd be surprised. Every two minutes. --Richard T. Jameson

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dark Journey-- a Vivien Leigh film pre-Gone with the Wind, October 13, 2001

By 

Leigh A. Mills "leighuf" (NH) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Dark Journey [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I bought this video to add to my growing collection of Vivien Leigh films. Of course, this is a must have. It captures Vivien before the Gone with the Wind phenomenon. On a whole, the plot was a bit slow and the sound quality made it difficult to understand all the actors, many of which have thick accents. What makes this film worthwhile is Vivien's performance. She truly carries the film! Vivien Leigh only made a handful of films, and it is interesting to hear the change in her voice. In her last few films her voice is husky, an effect of her habitual smoking. Though, in her earlier films, like DARK JOURNEY, her voice is light and almost musical. DARK JOURNEY is a must have for any serious Vivien Leigh fan!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent movie, September 2, 1998

By 

Barbara "Digger's Domain" (Cheyenne, WY, United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Dark Journey [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Takes place during WWI. Although the main characters are spies, we don't really see them do much spying. The true story is a love story between a French agent and a German agent, and how they each put duty before love. Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh both excellent. Only problem is tho it takes place in Sweden and France, with characters of those nationalities as well as German, everybody has an English accent - except Veidt, of course! END

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WORK THAT SUCCESSFULLY COMMANDS SEVERAL GENRES, October 20, 2005

By 

rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Dark Journey [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film features superb direction by Victor Saville, a magnificent cast led by Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh, outstanding production design and costumes while a complex script blends high adventure and romance; a scenario that perfectly makes order from wartime chaos and faith from despair. By combining varying themes and by a masterful use of extras, Saville clearly brings forth one of the better British efforts of the 1930s.