Night Boat to Dublin

Night Boat to Dublin
Night Boat to Dublin
Directed by	Lawrence Huntington
Written by	Lawrence Huntington
Starring	Robert Newton
Production; company	ABPC
Distributed by	Pathe
Release date	1 April 1946
Running time	100 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	£151,928 (UK)

Night Boat to Dublin is a 1946 British thriller film directed and co-written by Lawrence Huntington. It stars Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom.^[2]^[3]

Plot

During the Second World War, a captured German spy (Marius Goring) is executed at the Tower of London, without revealing the whereabouts of Professor Hansen, a refugee Swedish scientist in Britain. He is believed to be unwittingly passing information on the atomic bomb to Germany through the neutral Irish Free State. British intelligence attempts to locate him and break this link.^[4]

Two intelligence officers, Captain Grant and Captain Hunter, travel incognito on the overnight ferry to Dublin. They observe the German contact, Keitel, and their suspicion falls on lawyer Paul Faber. Grant manages to get a clerical job in Faber's London office, using a false identity. He allows himself to be exposed as an ex-army officer who's gone AWOL, and allows himself to be blackmailed by Faber into doing a number of illegal jobs. These include a marriage of convenience to Marion, a young Austrian girl who is desperate to acquire British nationality; also the theft of some radioactive items from a docks warehouse.

Eventually, the trail leads Grant, Hunter and the police to a manor house on the coast of Devon, where Hansen is being hidden.

Grant and Marion, now married, decide to stay together.

Cast

Robert Newton as Captain David Grant
Raymond Lovell as Paul Faber
Guy Middleton as Captain Tony Hunter
Muriel Pavlow as Marion Decker
Herbert Lom as Keitel
John Ruddock as Bowman
Martin Miller as Professor Hansen
Brenda Bruce as Lily Leggett
Gerald Case as Inspector Emerson
Scott Forbes as Lieutenant Allen
Leslie Dwyer as George Leggett
Valentine Dyall as Sir George Bell
Marius Goring as Frederick Jannings
Olga Lindo as Mrs. Coleman
Joan Maude as Sidney Vane

Production

Filming took place in July 1945.^[5]

Reception

The Observer said the film was "effectively done in a small way and has the frankly preposterous zest of a boys' adventure story."^[6]

References

^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p483
^ Night Boat to Dublin Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 13, Iss. 145, (Jan 1, 1946): 2.
^ NIGHT BOAT TO DUBLIN. (Directed by Lawrence Huntington.) Pathé. Associated British Hughes, Maud. Picture Show; London Vol. 50, Iss. 1232, (Feb 9, 1946): 2.
^ Film synopsis
^ "Future of soldier actors". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. VI, no. 35. New South Wales, Australia. 15 July 1945. p. 34. Retrieved 7 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
^ THE FILMS Lejeune, C A. The Observer 24 Feb 1946: 2.

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[1] Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p483

[2] Night Boat to Dublin Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 13, Iss. 145, (Jan 1, 1946): 2.

[3] NIGHT BOAT TO DUBLIN. (Directed by Lawrence Huntington.) Pathé. Associated British Hughes, Maud. Picture Show; London Vol. 50, Iss. 1232, (Feb 9, 1946): 2.

[4] Film synopsis

[5] "Future of soldier actors". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. VI, no. 35. New South Wales, Australia. 15 July 1945. p. 34. Retrieved 7 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

[6] THE FILMS Lejeune, C A. The Observer 24 Feb 1946: 2.

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