A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
Acting
Ted Healey's weirdly committed dramatic turn.
Production
Remarkably ambitious scope for 1939 British B-picture.
Director
Walter Summers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ted Healey was fired from the Three Stooges in 1932 and spent his later years in dramatic roles like this before his mysterious death in 1937 — wait, he died BEFORE this film? That's his brother.
Released mere months before WWII began, this captures Britain's obsession with fifth-column paranoia — the fear that your neighbor might be a Nazi spy became genuine national hysteria by 1940.
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