The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Country: US
Technical: bw 88m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
Nazi spies attempt to turn a US college graduate, who instead becomes a double agent for the FBI, infiltrating a New York spy ring attempting to smuggle atomic secrets back to Hamburg.
Review:
Sober Fox propaganda piece, complete with Mark Hellinger-style voiceover and hard-faced Nazis (except for the ever-genial Carroll). Making much capital out of the fact that the Bureau stopped the Germans from getting the Bomb, the film also sought to justify the internment of thousands of foreign nationals in the months following Pearl Harbor. As a Cold-War thriller 'avant la lettre', it is competent if somewhat po-faced.
Country: US
Technical: bw 88m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
Nazi spies attempt to turn a US college graduate, who instead becomes a double agent for the FBI, infiltrating a New York spy ring attempting to smuggle atomic secrets back to Hamburg.
Review:
Sober Fox propaganda piece, complete with Mark Hellinger-style voiceover and hard-faced Nazis (except for the ever-genial Carroll). Making much capital out of the fact that the Bureau stopped the Germans from getting the Bomb, the film also sought to justify the internment of thousands of foreign nationals in the months following Pearl Harbor. As a Cold-War thriller 'avant la lettre', it is competent if somewhat po-faced.
Country: US
Technical: bw 88m
Director: Henry Hathaway
Cast: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
Nazi spies attempt to turn a US college graduate, who instead becomes a double agent for the FBI, infiltrating a New York spy ring attempting to smuggle atomic secrets back to Hamburg.
Review:
Sober Fox propaganda piece, complete with Mark Hellinger-style voiceover and hard-faced Nazis (except for the ever-genial Carroll). Making much capital out of the fact that the Bureau stopped the Germans from getting the Bomb, the film also sought to justify the internment of thousands of foreign nationals in the months following Pearl Harbor. As a Cold-War thriller 'avant la lettre', it is competent if somewhat po-faced.