''Waterfront'' is a 1944 American film from PRC Pictures directed by

Steve Sekely Steve Sekely (February 25, 1899– March 9, 1979) was a Hungarian film director. Born István Székely, he was known by several names, based on his changing professional and immigration status, including Stefan Szekely. He directed films in Hun ...

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Plot

In San Francisco during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, Dr. Carl Decker ( J. Carrol Naish) is a local

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

spy leader undercover as an optometrist. While he is walking on the

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

waterfront at night, his decoder book and list of West Coast spies are stolen by the waterfront thug, Adolph Mertz. Victor Marlow comes to town, contacts Decker for his next assignment but the message he has is undecipherable without the book. It is a race to recover the book by two opposing teams: Decker and Marlow, and Zimmerman and Kramer; and a race to find a serial murderer.

Cast

John Carradine John Carradine ( ; born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later ...

as Victor Marlow * J. Carrol Naish as Dr. Carl Decker * Maris Wrixon as Freda Hauser, daughter * Edwin Maxwell as Max Kramer *

Terry Frost Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in ...

as Jerry Donovan, Freda's boyfriend) *

John Bleifer John Melvin Bleifer (July 26, 1901 – January 24, 1992) was an American actor whose career began at the end of the silent film era, and lasted through the mid-1980s. He appeared in feature films and film serials, and in a number of televis ...

as Oscar Zimmerman, owner—Anchor Cafe *

Marten Lamont A marten is a weasel-like mammal in the genus ''Martes'' within the subfamily Guloninae, in the family Mustelidae. They have bushy tails and large paws with partially retractile claws. The fur varies from yellowish to dark brown, depending on ...

as Mike Gorman * Olga Fabian as Mrs Emma Hauser as rooming house operator * Claire Rochelle as Maisie * Billy Nelson as Butch * as Adolph Mertz, waterfront thug

References

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* * 1944 films 1944 romantic drama films American black-and-white films American romantic drama films American spy films American war drama films Films directed by Steve Sekely Films set in San Francisco Producers Releasing Corporation films War romance films World War II spy films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{WWII-film-stub