Enemy Agent

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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 byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • April 19, 1940 (1940-04-19)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language English

Enemy Agent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Lew Landers and starring Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson, and Robert Armstrong. [1] The supporting cast includes Jack La Rue, Jack Carson, Philip Dorn and Milburn Stone. It was produced and distributed by Universal Studios

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Plot

A network of enemy agents infiltrate an aircraft factory to gain the plans on the United States' war preparations. A draughtsmen at the plant grows suspicious and so they attempt to frame him in the eyes of the FBI investators.

Cast

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References

  1. McLaughlin p.325

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