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Thriller

The House on 92nd Street

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

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

Release Date : 1945-09-10

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : 20th Century Fox

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

William Eythe

Character Name : Bill Dietrich

Original Name : William Eythe

Gender : Male

Lloyd Nolan

Character Name : Agent George A. Briggs

Original Name : Lloyd Nolan

Gender : Male

Signe Hasso

Character Name : Elsa Gebhardt

Original Name : Signe Hasso

Gender : Female

Gene Lockhart

Character Name : Charles Ogden Roper

Original Name : Gene Lockhart

Gender : Male

Leo G. Carroll

Character Name : Col. Hammersohn

Original Name : Leo G. Carroll

Gender : Male

Lydia St. Clair

Character Name : Johanna Schmidt

Original Name : Lydia St. Clair

Gender : Female

William Post Jr.

Character Name : Walker

Original Name : William Post Jr.

Gender : Male

Harry Bellaver

Character Name : Max Cobura

Original Name : Harry Bellaver

Gender : Male

Reed Hadley

Character Name : Narrator (voice)

Original Name : Reed Hadley

Gender : Male

Kenneth Konopka

Character Name : Saboteur

Original Name : Kenneth Konopka

Gender : Male

Bruno Wick

Character Name : Adolf Lange

Original Name : Bruno Wick

Gender : Male

Harro Meller

Character Name : Conrad Arnulf

Original Name : Harro Meller

Gender : Male

Charles Wagenheim

Character Name : Gustav Hausmann

Original Name : Charles Wagenheim

Gender : Male

Alfred Linder

Character Name : Adolf Klein

Original Name : Alfred Linder

Gender : Male

Renee Carson

Character Name : Luise Vajda

Original Name : Renee Carson

Gender : Male

Jack McKee

Character Name : Dr. Arthur C. Appleton

Original Name : Jack McKee

Gender : Male

Rusty Lane

Character Name : Admiral

Original Name : Rusty Lane

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-07-01

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.