Fly-by-Night (film)

Fly-by-Night
Fly-by-Night
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Written by	Jay Dratler ; F. Hugh Herbert
Story by	Ben Roberts ; Sidney Sheldon
Produced by	Sol C. Siegel ; Colbert Clark
Starring	Richard Carlson ; Nancy Kelly
Cinematography	John F. Seitz
Edited by	Arthur P. Schmidt
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	January 19, 1942;
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Last updated October 10, 2025

Fly-by-Night (also known under the alternative title Secrets of G32) is a 1942 American thriller/screwball comedy film directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Richard Carlson and Nancy Kelly. It was Siodmak's second American film.

Plot

A young doctor tracks down a Nazi spy ring in an effort to clear his name after being charged with the murder of a scientist.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Richard Carlson as Dr. Geoffrey Burton
Nancy Kelly as Pat Lindsey
Albert Bassermann as Dr. Storm
Miles Mander as Professor Langner
Edward Gargan as Officer Charlie Prescott
Adrian Morris as Officer John Prescott
Martin Kosleck as George Taylor
Walter Kingsford as Heydt
Cy Kendall as Dahlig
Nestor Paiva as Grube
Oscar O'Shea as Pa Prescott
Mary Gordon as Ma Prescott
Arthur Loft as Inspector Karns
Marion Martin as Blond nurse
Clem Bevans as Train station watchman

References

↑ "Fly-By-Night". IMDb . 19 January 1942.
↑ "Fly-By-Night (1942)".

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[1] "Fly-By-Night". IMDb . 19 January 1942.

[2] "Fly-By-Night (1942)".

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v t e Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Farewell (1930) Inquest (1931) About an Inquest (1931, MLV) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) La Vie parisienne (1936) Parisian Life (1936) The Great Refrain (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) The Corsican Brothers (1939) Personal Column (1939)
Hollywood 1941–1951	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) My Father, the Actor (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) My Schoolfriend (1960) The Nina B. Affair (1961) Escape from East Berlin (1962) The Shoot (1964) The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)

Fly-by-Night (film)

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Plot

Cast

References

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