Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
Acting
Pat O'Brien's working-class swagger aging like steel
Production
Real shipyard locations giving sweaty authenticity
Writing
Sibling rivalry somehow louder than Nazi plots
Director
A. Edward Sutherland
Pat O'Brien
Sam Gallagher
Carole Landis
Jill McCann
Chester Morris
Jeff Gallagher
Ruth Warrick
Lea Damaron
Barton MacLane
Red Kelly
Tom Tully
Brownell
Wallace Ford
Miller
Howard Freeman
Max Lessing
Erik Rolf
Ben Royall
Matt McHugh
Curly
Frank Sully
Shawn
Frank Fenton
Simms
Charles D. Brown
James Thane
Carol Nugent
Joan
Richard Lyon
Paul
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released March 1944, this rode the wave of 'enemy within' paranoia after actual sabotage fears at West Coast shipyards.
Carole Landis, the 'fake wife' Jill, was Hollywood's original 'Ping Girl' pin-up; her tragic 1948 death made this one of her final substantial roles.
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