thriller film
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Republic Pictures
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.Fetrow p.115 The film was nominated for an
Academy Award
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The former naval lieutenant Chris Waring is awakened by the police late time and delivered to
Admiral
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Curtiss, his former commander. The admiral asks Waring for his support in an
undercover operation
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US law
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. The op is about the shipowner Arnold Debrock, who sold ships to the United States but later got manipulated by enemy powers in a mysterious way. Since Curtiss knows that Chris is successful with women, he asks him to flirt with Debrocks's wife Valerie Avancen. Chris initially refuses to participate, but he changes his opinion in a short while after seeing Valerie boarding a ship to
Havana
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* Osa Massen as Valeria DeBrock
* William Wright as Christopher Waring
* Margaret Tallichet as Joan Millard
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Abner Biberman
Abner Warren Biberman (April 1, 1909 – June 20, 1977) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter.
Ruthless-looking, he was in demand to portray a wide variety of heavies and foreign nationalities during the Golden Years of Hollywo ...
as Carlos Castillo-Martinez
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Martin Kosleck
Martin Kosleck (born Nicolaie Yoshkin; March 24, 1904 – January 15, 1994) was a German film actor. Like many other German actors, he fled when the Nazi Germany, Nazis came to power. Inspired by his deep hatred of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ...