Category: Film-Noir
All Genres: Film-Noir, Drama
Release Year: 1945
Country: USA
Runtime: 88
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English, German
Director: Henry Hathaway
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Barré Lyndon – (screenplay) (as Barre Lyndon) and
Charles G. Booth – (screenplay) and
John Monks Jr. – (screenplay)
Charles G. Booth – (story)
Produced by: Louis De Rochemont – producer (as Louis de Rochemont)
Cast: William Eythe – Bill Dietrich
Lloyd Nolan – Agent George A. Briggs
Signe Hasso – Elsa Gebhardt
Gene Lockhart – Charles Ogden Roper
Leo G. Carroll – Col. Hammersohn
Lydia St. Clair – Johanna Schmidt
William Post Jr. – Walker (as William Post)
Harry Bellaver – Max Cobura
Bruno Wick – Adolphe Lange
Harro Meller – Conrad Arnulf
Charles Wagenheim – Gus Huzmann
Music: David Buttolph
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Plot Outline: Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the FBI in a Nazi spy ring.
Plot: Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. One such tries to recruit college grad Bill Dietrich, who becomes a double agent for the FBI. While Bill trains in Hamburg, a street-accident victim proves to have been spying on atom-bomb secrets; conveniently, Dietrich is assigned to the New York spy ring stealing these secrets. Can he track down the mysterious “Christopher” before his ruthless associates unmask and kill him?
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Esto Perpetua
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When the agents are preparing to do the first survey of the house they are wearing CD (Civil Defense) arm bands on their right arms. The next scene shows them approaching the house and the arm bands are now on their left arms.
Trivia: There are 8 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- Many of the bit roles in this film were played by real FBI agents, and this was their only film.
- The film is loosely based on the case of Duquesne Spy Ring headed by Frederick Joubert Duquesne and the work of real life double agent William G. Sebold.
- First film of E.G. Marshall.
