ID

FBW000968      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1940

Original Title

BRITISH INTELLIGENCE

Other Title(s)

ENEMY AGENT (GB)

Directed by

Terry O. Morse

Produced by

Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Burbank, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Script: Lee Katz, John Kangan; Based on: Anthony Paul Kelly (based on the story "British Intelligence"); Camera: Sid Hickox; Editing: Thomas Pratt; Music: Heinz Roemheld

Cast

Boris Karloff (Valdar); Margaret Lindsay (Helene von Lobeer); Maris Wrixon (Dorothy); Bruce Lester (Frank Bennett); Leonard Mudie (James Yeats); Holmes Herbert (Arthur Bennett); Winifred Harris (Mrs. Bennett); Lester Matthews (Thompson); John Spacey (Crichton); Austin Fairman (George Bennett); Clarence Derwent (Milkman); Louise Brien (Miss Risdon); Frederick Vogeding (Kuglar); Carlos De Valdez (Von Ritter); Willy Kaufman (Corporal); Frank Mayo (Brixton); Stuart Holmes (Luchow); Sidney Bracey (Crowder); Jack Mower (Morton)

Length

62'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Remarks

1. Remake von THREE FACES EAST (1930 US / Roy Del Ruth).

Abstract

British agent Helene von Lobeer falls in love with British aviator Frank Bennet while working as a nurse in a French hospital, only to be separated from him and then find him again. The German master spy Valdar is posing as a butler in the British War Office, planning to set off a bomb that will destroy the entire cabinet until Helen and Frank stop him by sacrificing their own lives.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987