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Enemy Agent | |
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Directed by | Lew Landers |
Written by | Edmund L. Hartmann Sam Robins |
Produced by | Ben Pivar |
Starring | Richard Cromwell Helen Vinson Marjorie Reynolds |
Cinematography | Jerome Ash |
Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
Music by | Hans J. Salter |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date | April 19, 1940 |
Running time | 64 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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