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Plot

This wartime melodrama stars George Sanders as Keith Wilson, a disillusioned Britisher who becomes a "Lord Haw Haw"type at a Nazi radio station. All the time he's dispensing anti-British propaganda over the airwaves, however, Wilson is actually a secret agent in the employ of the His Majesty's government. It is Wilson's intention to use his intimate relationship with the Germans to expose a worldwide Nazi spy ring. Romance enter the picture in the form of Ilse Preissing (Marguerite Chapman), the sister of a Nazi agent whose decision to join Wilson's side results in her death. Veteran movie villainess Gale Sondergaard also appears in the film, cast against type as a courageous British intelligence agent.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Action,Drama,War
Run Time:
77min.
Distributor(s):
Columbia Pictures
Director(s):
Alfred E. Green
Starring:
George Sanders , Marguerite Chapman , Onslow Stevens , Gale Sondergaard , Alan Napier
Keywords:
Britain,Germany,Nazism,agent [representative],broadcasting,code [encryption],double-agent,escape,espionage,intelligence [gov't],officer,propaganda,radio,secrets,war