Romance · Drama
The Dark Angel
Crowds just cannot get enough of the most appealing love story ever filmed!
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
Top Cast
Fredric March
Alan Trent
Merle Oberon
Kitty Vane
Herbert Marshall
Gerald Shannon
Janet Beecher
Mrs. Shannon
John Halliday
Sir George Barton
Henrietta Crosman
Granny Vane
Frieda Inescort
Ann West
Claud Allister
Lawrence Bidley
Directed by
Sidney Franklin
Production
Samuel Goldwyn ProductionsReviews
CinemaSerf
6/102/16/2024
Despite having quite a solid cast, I found this wartime drama drifted just once too often into the realms of sentimentality and I found it quiet heavy going at times. It's all about a love triangle. "Kitty" (Merle Oberon) has long since been friends with "Alan" (Fredric March) and "Gerald" (Herbert Marshall) and everyone knows it's from this pair that she shall pick her husband. With the Great War looming, she alights on "Alan" and their friend accepts her decision and off they go to fight. This is where we discover that all is not quite as civil as outwardly appears as "Gerald" sends his friend on a perilous mission that could change the dynamic of the three - permanently! The story is a bit thin and slightly predictable, but Oberon turns in an engaging effort as the never entirely conten
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