The House on 92nd Street

Unrated

9/10/19451h 28m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The F.B.I.'s own tense, terrific story behind the protection of the ATOMIC BOMB! ~

Overview:

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

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$2,500,000.00

Key words:

new york city
spy
fbi
world war ii
based on true story
treason
double agent
docudrama
semi-documentary
nazi spy
nazi collaborationism
spy ring
german spy
nazi underworld
nazi saboteurs
american-nazi
fbi agent
spy game
counter-espionage
spy house
woman spy

Cast

William Eythe

~ as ~

Bill Dietrich

Lloyd Nolan

~ as ~

Agent George A. Briggs

Signe Hasso

~ as ~

Elsa Gebhardt

Gene Lockhart

~ as ~

Charles Ogden Roper

Leo G. Carroll

~ as ~

Col. Hammersohn

Lydia St. Clair

~ as ~

Johanna Schmidt

William Post Jr.

~ as ~

Walker

Harry Bellaver

~ as ~

Max Cobura

Reed Hadley

~ as ~

Narrator (voice)

Kenneth Konopka

~ as ~

Saboteur

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
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.