Night Boat to Dublin
| Night Boat to Dublin | |
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| Directed by | Lawrence Huntington |
| Starring | Robert Newton |
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Release date | 1 April 1946 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £151,928 (UK)[1] |
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.
Plot
During the Second World War, Professor Hansen, a refugee Swedish scientist in Britain, is unwittingly passing information on the atomic bomb to Germany through the neutral Irish Free State. British intelligence attempts to break this link.[2]
Two intelligence officers, Captain Grant and Captain Hunter, travel incognito to Dublin; 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.
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
References
- ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p483
- ^ Film synopsis
External links
- Night Boat to Dublin at IMDb
- Review of film at Variety
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