---
title: 'They Met in the Dark (1943)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Karel Lamač'
released: '1943-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 95
genres:
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/they-met-in-the-dark-1943'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036428/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# They Met in the Dark (1943)

1943 · 95 min · Thriller · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

They Met in the Dark is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Karel Lamač and starring James Mason, Joyce Howard and Edward Rigby. The screenplay concerns a cashiered Royal Naval officer and a young woman who join forces to solve a murder and hunt down a German spy ring. The film features a single song sung by Phyllis Stanley, "Toddle Along". The film is very loosely based on the 1941 novel The Vanishing Corpse by Anthony Gilbert.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Karel Lamač](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-lamac)
- **Screenplay:** [Anatole de Grunwald](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatole-de-grunwald)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Benjamin Frankel](https://cinepixo.com/people/benjamin-frankel)
- **Producer:** [Marcel Hellman](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-hellman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Otto Heller](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-heller)

## Cast

- [Eric Mason](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-mason)
- [Phyllis Stanley](https://cinepixo.com/people/phyllis-stanley)
- [Joyce Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/joyce-howard)
- [Patricia Medina](https://cinepixo.com/people/patricia-medina)
- [David Farrar](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-farrar)
- [Anthony Dawson](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-dawson)
- [James Mason](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-mason)
- [Karel Štěpánek](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-stepanek)
- [Tom Walls](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-walls)

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