Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
Acting
Leigh's eyes do three acts of subtext before she speaks.
Costume
Goddard's wardrobe: each hat a lie, each gown a weapon.
Director
Victor Saville
Vivien Leigh
Madeleine Goddard
Conrad Veidt
Baron Karl Von Marwitz
Joan Gardner
Lupita
Anthony Bushell
Bob Carter
Ursula Jeans
Gertrude
Eliot Makeham
Anatole Bergen
Austin Trevor
Dr. Muller
Edmund Willard
General Berlin of German Intelligence
Charles Carson
Head of Fifth Bureau
Philip Ray
Faber
Henry Oscar
Swedish Magistrate
Cecil Parker
Captain Of Q-Boat
Reginald Tate
Mate of Q-Boat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Leigh filmed this between stage triumphs, using it partly to prove she could carry films without Olivier. She was already negotiating Gone with the Wind.
Veidt—fresh from fleeing Nazi Germany—plays a sympathetic German officer with unsettling nuance, his real exile shadowing every scene.
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