Eric Linden (Corporal Greg Carroll), Ben Alexander (Sergeant Paul), Donald Curtis (Lieutenant John Harmon), Ann Doran (Linda), Constance Worth (Alma Barton), Boyd Irwin (Colonel Longstreet), George Lynn (Professor Carroll), Weldon Heyburn (Sergeant Blake), Robert Frazer (Captain Bryant), I. Stanford Jolley (Carl Flegler), Dudley Dickerson (Sam), Bernice Pilot (Mamie), Ray Erlenborn (Private Norton), Dennis Moore (Stanley Hume), Earle Hodgins (Wallace, military intelligence), William Ruhl (Captain Gray), Emmett Vogan (Harold), Jack Cheatham (Martin, military intelligence), Bill Cartledge (elevator operator).
Director: Joseph H. LEWIS. Screenplay: Edward Bennett. Story: Arthur Hoerl. Film editor: Howard Dillinger. Photography: Arthur Martinelli. Wardrobe supervisor: Emanuel Glussman. Production manager: Earl Sheffer. Assistant director: William Strohbach. Sound recording: Ben Winkler, Arthur B. Smith. Producer: E.B. Derr. Executive producer: George R. Batcheller.
Copyright 13 June 1941 by Producers Releasing Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 27 June 1941. 7 reels. 70 minutes.
Alternative title: ARMY MYSTERY.
SYNOPSIS: Spies infiltrate an army base. Suspicion falls on a young corporal, though anyone with half a brain (except, of course, the deadheads in army intelligence) would realize that he was the least likely person in the entire camp.
COMMENT: Ingeniously directed by Joseph H. Lewis to pad out a meager budget by actually shooting both outside and inside the studio sound stages, this PRC effort emerges as a reasonably captivating little thriller, helped out by some attractive performers, not least of which is Eric Linden who turns in a much classier job here as the principal hero than he did as Norman Foster's helpmate in "Ladies Crave Excitement".
Both heroine Ann Doran and sultry heavy Constance Worth also appeal, while Dudley Dickerson and Bernice Pilot provide some fair comic relief.
Director: Joseph H. LEWIS. Screenplay: Edward Bennett. Story: Arthur Hoerl. Film editor: Howard Dillinger. Photography: Arthur Martinelli. Wardrobe supervisor: Emanuel Glussman. Production manager: Earl Sheffer. Assistant director: William Strohbach. Sound recording: Ben Winkler, Arthur B. Smith. Producer: E.B. Derr. Executive producer: George R. Batcheller.
Copyright 13 June 1941 by Producers Releasing Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 27 June 1941. 7 reels. 70 minutes.
Alternative title: ARMY MYSTERY.
SYNOPSIS: Spies infiltrate an army base. Suspicion falls on a young corporal, though anyone with half a brain (except, of course, the deadheads in army intelligence) would realize that he was the least likely person in the entire camp.
COMMENT: Ingeniously directed by Joseph H. Lewis to pad out a meager budget by actually shooting both outside and inside the studio sound stages, this PRC effort emerges as a reasonably captivating little thriller, helped out by some attractive performers, not least of which is Eric Linden who turns in a much classier job here as the principal hero than he did as Norman Foster's helpmate in "Ladies Crave Excitement".
Both heroine Ann Doran and sultry heavy Constance Worth also appeal, while Dudley Dickerson and Bernice Pilot provide some fair comic relief.