“The most deceitful man a woman ever loved!”
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
Orson Welles
Sam Spiegel
John Huston
Anthony Veiller
Russell Metty
Bronislau Kaper
Edward G. Robinson
Federal Agent Wilson
Loretta Young
Mary Longstreet
Orson Welles
Prof. Charles Rankin
Philip Merivale
Judge Adam Longstreet
Richard Long
Noah Longstreet
Konstantin Shayne
Konrad Meinike
Byron Keith
Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence
Billy House
Mr. Solomon Potter
Martha Wentworth
Sara
David Bond
Student (uncredited)
John Brown
Passport Photographer (uncredited)
Neal Dodd
Minister (uncredited)
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TheCakerBaker
Excellent cinematography and camerawork as can be expected from Welles. Entertaining throughout. Watch if you're a fan of film noir
John Chard
They searched the woods. I watched them, here, like God looking at little ants. We are in the college town of Harper, Connecticut, one day a man known only as Wilson arrives, he's a member of the War Crimes Commission, in short he's a Nazi Hunter. On his radar is the man thought to have invente...
CinemaSerf
This taut and suspenseful thriller finds a devilishly clever Edward G. Robinson ("Mr. Wilson") on the trail of the Nazi who allegedly devised the whole concept of mass annihilation in the concentration camps. Having released one of his erstwhile minions "Meinike", he hopes that he will lead to him t...
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