Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.
Writing
Ripped-from-headlines urgency about veterans' organizations as fronts.
Acting
Nancy Coleman's amnesia spiral is genuinely disorienting.
Director
Jack Bernhard
Nancy Coleman
Ann Dwire, alias Ann Mason
Michael O'Shea
Steve Fuller
Sheldon Leonard
Fred Stalk
Peter Whitney
Joker
Emory Parnell
True Dawson
Pierre Watkin
Ralph Borden
Frank Reicher
Pop, apartment concierge
Cay Forester
Sally Donahue (as Cay Forester)
John Hamilton
Dr. Chalmers
Richard Irving
Protest Rally Orator
Carole Donne
Beth Taffel, Borden's secretary
William Gould
Mr. X
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during HUAC's rise, the film's fake-patriot villains ironically anticipated how Hollywood itself would be accused of subversion.
Sheldon Leonard's Fred Stalk became a TV producing legend—he basically invented the sitcom with The Danny Thomas Show.
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