I See a Dark Stranger (1946)

I See a Dark Stranger (1946) is a neglected masterpiece espionage and Irish republican IRA hopeful British Sydney Gilliat and Frank Launder voiceover for comic intensity and commentary woman's film noir and adventure story post war reflection picture comedy starring Deborah Kerr and Trevor Howard, commencing in Ireland in 1937 and following young Bridie Quilty who has grown up listening to her father's heroic tales of the Irish Revolution, . . . . .  she develops a hatred for everything and everyone British, especially "the wicked murdering blackguard" Oliver Cromwell. By 1944, Mr. Quilty has died. Bridie, who is now 21, sets out for Dublin to carve a life of her own, hoping to join the IRA. 

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Night Train to Munich (1940) is a Carol Reed wartime sticky wicket concentration camp train and mountain and foreign territory based super anti-Nazi Alfred Hitchcock-influenced spy thriller by the mighty Carol Reed and starring Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood and Paul Henreid, and written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, and itself derived from Gordon Wellesley’s 1939 tale “Report on a Fugitive,” which charts the perilous tribulations of a brilliant inventor and his devoted daughter, both spirited away by the Gestapo in the ominous shadow of the Nazi incursion into Prague on the very brink of global conflagration, while into this treacherous milieu steps a resourceful operative of His Majesty’s Secret Service, who insinuates himself into the upper echelons of the German military machine, assuming the guise of a senior officer and feigning amorous interest in the young woman, all in the delicate hope of luring her and her invaluable father from the tightening coils of the Nazi embrace.

Waterloo Road (1945)

Waterloo Road (1945) is a wartime flashback and voiceover absent without leave soldier versus civvy philandering conscription-dodger tale of British pluck and courage and directed by Sidney Gilliat with Trümmerfilm overtones and starring John Mills, Alistair Sim, Joy Shelton and Stuart Granger.

Waterloo Road (1945) presents itself, at first glance, as an agreeably told anecdote of domestic turbulence during the Second World War, yet such phrasing obscures the severity of its intervention.

She Played With Fire (1957)

She Played With Fire (1957) is a psychological Limey thriller noir sort of Brit insurance fraud melodrama mystery with widespread stiff upper lippery and confusion raining doubt on a lovely couple of paranoiacs.

She Played with Fire, also known as Fortune Is a Woman, is a captivating British-American film noir from 1957, directed by Sidney Gilliat. The film stars Jack Hawkins as Oliver Branwell, an insurance investigator who finds himself entangled in a web of arson, blackmail, and murder after a chance encounter with an old flame, Sarah Moreton, played by Arlene Dahl.