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
Joan Bennett
Sophia Baumer
Milton Berle
Moe Finkelstein
Otto Preminger
Karl Baumer
Carl Esmond
Baron Max von Alvenstor
Howard Freeman
Otto Horst
Poldi Dur
Frieda Schmidt
Clyde Fillmore
Dr. Jennings
Byron Foulger
Pharmacist
Selmer Jackson
Medical Examiner
Emmett Vogan
Fingerprint Expert
Ludwig Donath
Hitler's Voice
Ferike Boros
Mrs. Finkelstein
Ralph Byrd
Pete - Dice-Playing Soldier
Ruth Cherrington
Dowager
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.
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