The House on 92nd
Street (1945)
Based on real events
this film from director Henry Hathaway stars William Eythe, Llyod
Nolan and Signe Hasso. With the help of a double agent the FBI look
to round up a ring of German spies operating out of New York during
WW2.
As with many a film
based on real events this film takes it's inspiration from the
capture of the Duquesne spy ring but inserts it's own fictional
elements. The film is in the style of a semi documentary, it comes
across as a recruiting tool for the FBI and a warning to the Soviets
at the start of the cold war. Some of the boasts made by the film's
narrator about the effectiveness of the FBI do fall short given we
now know how well the Soviets penetrated the US during WW2.
2/5
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