Review of They Met in the Dark

THEY MET IN THE DARK is a murder mystery which offers something slightly different to the norm; the backdrop is World War 2, which makes it somewhat inevitable that the villains of the hour turn out to be a spy ring rather than a psycho or serial killer. It benefits immensely from a charming turn from leading man James Mason, who is particularly good in the early scenes of verbal sparring with Joyce Howard. The plot is reminiscent of Hitchcock and keeps moving into new directions, which is all for the good, although the ending is a bit anticlimatic. Still well worth a look though.