Waterfront (1944 film)

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Waterfront
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Directed by Steve Sekely
Written by Martin Mooney (story and screenplay)
Irwin Franklyn (screenplay)
Produced by Arthur Alexander
Alfred Stern
StarringSee below
Cinematography Robert E. Cline
Edited by Charles Henkel Jr.
Release date
  • June 10, 1944 (1944-06-10)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Waterfront is a 1944 American film from PRC Pictures directed by Steve Sekely. [1]

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Plot

In San Francisco during World War II, Dr. Carl Decker (J. Carrol Naish) is a local Nazi spy leader undercover as an optometrist. While he is walking on the San Francisco waterfront at night, his decoder book and list of West Coast spies are stolen by the waterfront thug, Adolph Mertz. Victor Marlow comes to town, contacts Decker for his next assignment but the message he has is undecipherable without the book. It is a race to recover the book by two opposing teams: Decker and Marlow, and Zimmerman and Kramer; and a race to find a serial murderer.

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