The Dark Angel Reviews
Miss Oberon is a revelation.
| Mar 11, 2023
Admirably directed by Sidney Franklin, The Dark Angel is a poignant wartime drama, a beautiful love story...
| Mar 11, 2023
A picture that contains beauty in writing, intelligence in direction and sincerity and appeal in acting.
| Mar 10, 2023
Blessed by a first-rate job of direction by Sidney Franklin, and three equally impressive acting performances by Merle Oberon, Fredric March, and Herbert Marshal.
| Mar 10, 2023
The picture... succeeds chiefly because it attains that requisite shrewd acting, a series of lovely settings and astutely directed scenes.
| Mar 10, 2023
Number-One tearjerker of the season.
| Mar 10, 2023
Genuinely sincere picture in all departments.
| Mar 10, 2023
Merle Oberon is established by this one picture as a star of the first magnitude. Her emotional scenes are unusually convincing.
| Mar 10, 2023
An artistic and emotional success - handsomely produced, with a careful eye to detail, and yet compelling and poignant in its play upon the heartstrings.
| Mar 10, 2023
Merle Oberon as Kitty, gives a beautifully sincere performance.
| Mar 10, 2023
The Dark Angel is still effective, if sensational, drama.
| Mar 10, 2023
Timely in context, excellent in photography, and interestingly presenting Merle Oberon as a new star.
| Mar 10, 2023
A touching, sentimental fable that quietly and placidly makes a weeping willow of eve n the least susceptible.
| Mar 10, 2023
A cinematic instrument as finely tuned to the emotions as if a master virtuoso played upon the heartstrings.
| Mar 10, 2023
One of the worst films of the year.
| Mar 10, 2023
The Dark Angel, though rather long and, at times, harrowing, is a picture with minor flaws.
| Mar 10, 2023
A war-time romance, dewy with sentiment and pathos.
| Mar 10, 2023
The technique of production and the tempo of story narration equal the quality of the performances, and that is high, at times superbly touching.
| Mar 10, 2023
There is deep emotional appeal and tender pathos in the story, and the doings of the characters hold one in suspense.
| Mar 10, 2023
It is done quietly and sincerely and smashingly Merle Oberon.
| Mar 10, 2023