With Talking Pictures yer pays yer money and yer tikes yer choice. For my money that choice is weighted heavily towards the Old Mother Rileys and Gert and Daisys of this world but every now and again that dross is forgiven when it thows up something like this, a title completely unknown to me despite top-billing James Mason and thoroughly entertaining. Hype is a wonderful thing and it's infectious, don't believe me? Check out the reviews posted here and count how many times this movie is compared unfavourably with the pedestrian at best work of Alfred Hitchcock which proves that if you repeat something enough times - in this case Hitchcock was a 'master' the gullible filmgoer will begin to believe it. This is an excellent print and despite the odd risible incidents - it takes place in the very middle of wartime yet Mason and Howard - to say nothing of Tom Walls and his spy ring - have no trouble whatsoever taking a train to Liverpool at practically a moments' notice. Overall well worth a look.
Review of They Met in the Dark
