Night Boat to Dublin

Night Boat to Dublin
Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Starring Robert Newton
Production
company
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

Muriel Pavlow on the set of the film

References

  1. ↑ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p483
  2. ↑ Film synopsis
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