Underground Agent | |
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Directed by | Michael Gordon |
Written by | J. Robert Bren, Gladys Atwater |
Produced by | Sam White |
Starring | Bruce Bennett, Leslie Brooks, Frank Albertson, Julian Rivero |
Cinematography | L. William O'Connell |
Edited by | Arthur Seid |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 66 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Underground Agent is a 1942 American drama film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Bruce Bennett, Leslie Brooks, Frank Albertson, and Julian Rivero. The film was released by Columbia Pictures.
Plot
Two U.S. government agents (Bruce Bennett and Frank Albertson) are assigned to prevent Nazi spies involved in a eavesdropping scheme from infiltrating into a Southern California war-defense plant. To help them in their venture, one of the agents invents an ingenious word-scrambler that eventually leads them to the German spies.
Cast
- Bruce Bennett as Lee Graham
- Leslie Brooks as Ann Carter
- Frank Albertson as Johnny Davis
- Julian Rivero as Miguel Gonzales
- George McKay as Pete Dugan
- Rhys Williams as Henry Miller
- Henry Victor as Johann Schrode
- Addison Richards as George Martin
- Rosina Galli as Maria Gonzales
- Leonard Strong as Count Akiri
- Hans Conried as Hugo
References
- "Underground Agent (1942)". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- "Underground Agent (1942)". Letterboxd. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- Cripps, Thomas (1993). Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era. Oxford University Press. p. 322. ISBN 9780195076691. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
Underground Agent (1942 film).
- Rollins, Peter C. (2004). The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. Columbia University Press. p. 135. ISBN 9780231508391. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- III, Harris M. Lentz (2008). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2007: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. McFarland. p. 29. ISBN 9780786434817. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
External links
Films directed by Michael Gordon | |
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