ID

FBW000992      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1939

Original Title

Espionag Agente

Directed by

Lloyd Bacon

Produced by

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

Staff

Executive producer: Hal B. Wallis; Associate producer: Louis F. Edelman; Dialoge direction: Jo Graham; Script: Warren Duff, Michael Fessier, Frank Donaghue; Based on: Robert Buckner (based on the story "Career Man"); Camera: Charles Rosher; Editing: Ralph Dawson; Sound: Francis J. Scheid; Art direction: Carl Jules Weyl; Costumes: Milo Anderson; Makeup: Perc Westmore; Music: Adolph Deutsch; Musical direction: Leo F. Forbstein

Cast

Joel McCrea (Barry Corvall); Brenda Marshall (Brenda Ballard); Jeffrey Lynn (Lowell Warrington); George Bancroft (Dudley Garrett); Stanley Ridges (Hamilton Peyton); James Stephenson (Dr. Rader); Howard C. Hickman (Walter Forbes); Nana Bryant (Mrs. Corvall); Rudolf Amendt-Anders (als: Rudolf Anders) (Paul Strawn); Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (Dr. Helm); Lucien Prival (Decker); Addison Richards (Bruce Corvall); Edwin Stanley (Secretary of State); Granville Bates (Phineas T. O'Grady); Grace Hayle (Mrs. O'Grady); Egon Brecher (Detective Larson); Emmett Vogan (Instructor); William Hopper (Student); Glen Langan (Student); Lionel Royce (Hoffmeyer); Henry Victor (Foreign Official); Lloyd Ingraham (Woodrow Wilson); Chris-Pin Martin (Tunisian Guard); Stuart Holmes (American); Fern Barry (American); Al Lloyd (American); Eddie Graham (American); John Harron (American); Sally Sage (American); Alice Connors (American); Frederick Vogeding (Man); Arno Frey (Man); Sarah Edwards (Woman); Loia Cheaney (Woman); Lottie Williams (Woman); George Reeves (Warrington's Secretary); Louis Adlon (Youth); Vera Lewis (Militant Woman); Dorothy Vaughan (Stout Woman); Sidney Bracey (Steward); Alex Melesh (Headwaiter); George Irving (Elderly Official); William Worthington (Instructor); Selmer Jackson (Instructor); John Hamilton (Code Room Instructor); Rolf Lindau (Foreign Agent); Nella Walker (Mrs. Peyton); Jean De Briac (Waiter); Henry Zynda (Guard); Billy McClain (Manservant); Winifred Harris (Lady Ashford); Wolfgang Zilzer (als: John Voight); Frederick Lindsley (Announcer); Eddie Acuff (Taxi Driver)

Length

83'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 22 Sep 1939: US release date
- 25 Mar 1963: First run, GFR, TV

Abstract

State Department agent Barry Corvall teams up with Brenda Ballard to steal the evidence of Nazi espionage in the US off a train somewhere in Europe.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Distributor

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

Bibliography

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