Espionage Agent (1939)

Directed by

Lloyd Bacon

Genre

propaganda film, spy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Just before World War II, a man gets involved in uncovering a German spy ring in the United States. He works against both the spies and the American government's official neutrality policy.

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What happens

Espionage Agent is a pre–World War II spy melodrama produced by Hal B. Wallis in 1939. Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Espionage Agent, like many Warner Bros. movies, clearly identifies the Germans as the enemy. This was unlike the policy of many other movie studios during this period that did not want to antagonize foreign governments. The film was released on September 22, 1939, the day after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Neutrality Act allowing "Cash and Carry" provisions for countries fighting Germany and a little over four months after the premiere of another Warner Bros. anti-Nazi film, Confessions of a Nazi Spy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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