Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust
ID |
FBW001089 Fiction |
Country / Year |
USA, 1945 |
Original Title |
The House on 92nd Street |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY |
Staff |
Producer: Louis De Rochemont; Script: Barre Lyndon, Charles G. Booth, John Monks, Jr.; Based on: Charles G. Booth (Story); Camera: Norbert Brodine; Special optical effects: Fred Sersen; Editing: Harmon Jones; Art direction: Lyle R. Wheeler, Lewis H. Creber; Set decoration: Thomas Little, William Sittel; Costumes: Bonnie Cashin; Music: David Buttolph; Musical direction: Emil Newman |
Cast |
William Eythe (Bill Dietrich); Lloyd Nolan (Inspector George A. Briggs); Signe Hasso (Elsa Gebhardt); Gene Lockhart (Charles Ogden Roper); Leo G. Carroll (Col. Hammersohn); Lydia St. Clair (Johanna Schmedt); Reed Hadley (Narrator); William Post, Jr. (Walker); Harry Bellaver (Max Coburg); Bruno Wick (Adolphe Lange); Harro Meller (Conrad Arnulf); Charles Wagenheim (Gus Huzmann); Alfred Linder (Adolph Klaen); Renee Carson (Luise Vadja); John McKee (Dr. Arthur C. Appleton); Edwin Jerome (Major General); Elisabeth Neumann (Freda Kassel); George Shelton (Jackson); Alfred Zeisler (Col. Strassen); Rusty Lane (Admiral); Salo Douday (Franz Von Wirt); Paul Ford (Sergeant); William Adams (Customs Officer); Lew Eckles (Policeman); Fred Hillebrand (Policeman); Tom Brown (Intern); Bruce Fernald (FBI Agent); Jay Wesley (FBI Agent); Benjamin Burroughs (Aide); Douglas Rutherford (Saboteur); Frieda Altman (Saboteur); William Beach (Saboteur); Hamilton Benz (Saboteur); Henry Cordy (Saboteur); Mita Cordy (Saboteur); James J. Coyle (Saboteur); Hans Hansen (Saboteur); Kenneth Konopka (Saboteur); Scott Moore (Saboteur); Delmar Nuetzman (Saboteur); John Zak (Saboteur); Gertrude Wottitz (Saboteur); Bernard Lenrow (Saboteur); George Brandt (German Man); Yoshita Tagawa (Japanese Man); Sheila Bromley (Customer); Elmer Brown (Scientist); Jack Cherry (Scientist); Victor Sutherland (Toll Guard); Stanley Tackney (Instructor); Robert Culler (Trainee); Vincent Gardenia (Trainee); Carl Benson (Trainee); Frank Richards (Trainee); Ellsworth Glath (Trainee); Edward Michaels (Trainee); Harrison Scott (Trainee); Anna Marie Hornemann (Trainee); Sara Strengell (Trainee); Eugene Stuckmann (Trainee); Marriott Wilson (Trainee); Frank Kreig (Travel Agent); Antonio J. Pires (Watchmaker); Danny Leone (Delivery Boy); E.G. Marshall (Attendant at Morgue); J. Edgar Hoover (Himself); Baron von Genin (Himself); Hans Thomson (Himself); Edgar Dearing (Cop) |
Length |
88' |
Format |
35mm/sw/1:1,37 |
Abstract |
Inspector George A. Briggs a no-nonsense federal investigator is sought out by German-American Bill Dietrich, a brilliant student. He has been contacted by Nazi spies, he tells Inspector George A. Briggs, and asked to work with them. Inspector George A. Briggs encourages Bill Dietrich to accept the offer and work as a double agent, reporting all Nazi activities to the FBI. Slowly, Bill Dietrich ingratiates himself with several Nazi agents and is assigned, as a technician, to transmit messages to Germany via short-wave radio. He establishes a remote radio hideout and begins sending messages, really to FBI headquarters, and its operators pass on fake information to Germany. Through this system Bill Dietrich is able to learn that Nazi agents are after data concerning the development of the atomic bomb identifying Lockhart, one of the scientists working on the apparatus, as a Nazi agent. |
Subject Terms |
Anti-Nazi films (US); FBI (USA); War; National Socialists; New York, NY; Nazi organizations; Espionage; USA; World War II |
Bibliography |
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987 |