Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Acting
Donald Meek's bee-obsessed Bartholomew is scene-stealing gold.
Direction
Tourneur's tight 59-minute efficiency.
Production
Radex factory sets drip with 1939 industrial anxiety.
Director
Jacques Tourneur
Walter Pidgeon
Nicholas 'Nick' Carter, aka Robert Chalmers
Rita Johnson
Lou Farnsby
Henry Hull
John A. Keller
Stanley Ridges
Doctor Frankton (as Stanley C. Ridges)
Donald Meek
Bartholomew, the bee man
Addison Richards
Streeter - President of Radex
Henry Victor
Hammil - tall spy boss
Milburn Stone
Krebs - 2d hurt worker
Martin Kosleck
Otto - 3d hurt worker
Frank Faylen
Pete Foley - 1st pilot
Sterling Holloway
Bartholomew's Bee Asst.
Edgar Dearing
Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Walter Pidgeon would reprise Nick Carter three more times in 1940, making this a forgotten franchise starter.
Nick Carter debuted in an 1886 dime novel—this film bridges 53 years of American pulp tradition into the sound era.
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