The House on 92nd Street

1945

1h 28m

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6.5/10

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The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

Directors

Henry Hathaway

Writers

John Monks Jr.(screenplay by)

Barré Lyndon(screenplay by)

Charles G. Booth(story by)

Stars

William Eythe

Lloyd Nolan

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Top cast

William Eythe

Bill Dietrich

Lloyd Nolan

Agent George A. Briggs

Elsa Gebhardt

Charles Ogden Roper

Col. Hammersohn

Johanna Schmidt

Walker

Max Cobura

Narrator (voice)

Saboteur

Adolf Lange

Conrad Arnulf

Gustav Hausmann

Adolf Klein

Luise Vajda

Dr. Arthur C. Appleton

Rusty Lane

Admiral

Directors

Henry Hathaway

Writers

John Monks Jr.(screenplay by)

Barré Lyndon(screenplay by)

Charles G. Booth(story by)

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Charles Booth won an Oscar for his writing on this early drama-documentary depicting the hunt by the FBI for an established network of Nazi fifth columnists long since operating in the USA. It falls to agent "Bill Dietrich" (William Eythe) to infiltrate the cell and to find out who is ultimately giving the orders - the mysterious "Mr. Christopher". Reporting to "Insp, Briggs" (Lloyd Nolan) he treads a perilous path as his newfound friends doubt his backstory and suspect him of being a double-agent. I was put off by the overly earnest narrative from Reed Hadley, and the acting is all pretty lacklustre aside from Leo G. Carroll as the duplicitous "Col. Hammersohn" who is feeding the information to "Dietrich" whilst simultaneously trying to verify his identity. The ending is all too predictable and that really lets it down quite badly. For such a sophisticated network of spies to be quite so easy to identify is doubtless meant to be a testament to the skills of the wartime FBI, but as a device for a story, it lacks credibility: the fire escape, really? Henry Hathaway keeps it moving along well enough but the story leaves just too obvious a trail of breadcrumbs for it to be intriguing, or plausible.

Geronimo196701 Jul, 2022