When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
Acting
Milton Berle's jittery physical comedy in a Nazi thriller.
Direction
Preminger directing his own on-screen demise with glee.

Director
Otto Preminger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Preminger was an Austrian Jew who fled the Nazis in 1935; casting himself as a Nazi consul he kills was deeply personal catharsis.
The play was written by Clare Boothe Luce specifically as anti-isolationist propaganda before Pearl Harbor made it redundant.