A former OSS agent is assigned to rescue two atomic scientists from the dastardly Russians and spirit them away from behind the Iron Curtain.
Production
Stock footage masquerading as Eastern Europe is gloriously unconvincing.
Acting
Mischa Auer steals every scene as the unhinged smuggler Ali Imagu.
Director
John Reinhardt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before the Berlin Blockade, this was peak Hollywood Red Scare opportunism—atomic anxiety sold as adventure.
Director John Reinhardt spent the 1930s making Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films for Latin American markets; this was his Stateside comeback.
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