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Synopsis: Preface: a stentorian narrator tells us that the USA was flooded with Nazi spies in 1939-41. One such tries to recruit college grad Bill Dietrich, who becomes a double agent for the FBI. While Bill trains in Hamburg, a street-accident victim proves to have been spying on atom-bomb secrets; conveniently, Dietrich is assigned to the New York spy ring stealing these secrets. Can he track down the mysterious "Christopher" before his ruthless associates unmask and kill him?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director(s): Henry Hathaway
Actors: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
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Year:
1945
88 min
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Burn everything. Put it in the fireplace.

Johanna, bring me the papers

on Process 97.

We've already failed once today,

we cannot fail again.

Nothing matters except getting

this information through. Nothing.

There's one chance left.

To contact the courier from Hamburg.

I've got to get out of here.

You cover for me.

Delay them all you can.

It may mean the lives

of every single one of us...

...but this must be on its way

to Hamburg tonight.

- All right, get them up. Get them up.

- Move it.

Okay, stick them up!

Go on.

Get going, get going.

Come on. Go on.

Thus ended the Christopher case.

Elsa Gebhardt, alias Mr. Christopher...

...was no more successful

than other foreign espionage agents.

Process 97...

...the atomic bomb...

...America's top war secret,

remains a secret.

After the United States went to war,

December 7th, 1941...

...16,440 enemy agents, saboteurs...

...and dangerous enemy aliens

were arrested.

Six have already been executed.

Thousands were interned.

Others were in prison

for a sum total of 1880 years.

All of the thoroughly laid enemy plans

for a fifth column...

...were smashed before

they could be put into operation.

Not one single

act of enemy-directed sabotage...

...was perpetrated

within the United States...

...nor was one major

war secret stolen.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation

continues to be the implacable foe...

...of all enemies of the United States.

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Barré Lyndon

Barré Lyndon (pseudonym of Alfred Edgar) (12 August 1896 – 23 October 1972) was a British playwright and screenwriter. The pseudonym was presumably taken from the title character of Thackeray's novel. Born in London, he may be best remembered for three screenplays from the 1940s: The Lodger (1944), Hangover Square (1945) and The Man in Half Moon Street (1945). The latter was remade by Hammer Film Productions in 1959 as The Man Who Could Cheat Death. Lyndon began his writing career as a journalist, particularly about motor-racing, and short-story writer before becoming a playwright. His first play, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, was made into an Edward G. Robinson film in 1939. After that success, Lyndon moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1941 to concentrate on writing for films full time. He was naturalised as a United States citizen in the United States District Court in Los Angeles as Alfred Edgar Barre Lyndon in 1952. Alfred Edgar had two sons, Roger Alvin Edgar (b. England, 1924) and Barry Davis Edgar (b. England, 1929) . more…

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