
Because of his German parentage, government agent Carl Steelman is assigned to by his chief, Craig, to join the Nazi Bund, to obtain information on the underground activities of the group. Steelman is welcomed and becomes a trusted member of the group. His father, Julius Steelman, unaware of this son's real mission, drives him from their home. The government agents raid a Bund meeting and Steelman assumes the identity of one of the members who was about to depart to Germany f... (Full plot summary below)
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Because of his German parentage, government agent Carl Steelman is assigned to by his chief, Craig, to join the Nazi Bund, to obtain information on the underground activities of the group. Steelman is welcomed and becomes a trusted member of the group. His father, Julius Steelman, unaware of this son's real mission, drives him from their home. The government agents raid a Bund meeting and Steelman assumes the identity of one of the members who was about to depart to Germany for training. In Berlin, Steelman meets and falls in love with Helga Lorenz, a member of the German underground. In order to hide his true identity and complete his mission, Steelman has to betray the girl to the Gestapo, but later manages to rescue her and see her safely on her way to England. Frau Reiter, wife of the man whose identity Steelman has assumed, threatens to turn him over to the police. He convinces the Gestapo that she is crazy and she is confined to an insane asylum. His training completed, Steelman is sent to America, via submarine, in charge of a group of eight saboteurs. Before they depart the sub, off the Long Island coast, Steelman plants a time-bomb in the sub.
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| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussAlarming images aside, the movie's actual message is one of reassurance: Like Spike Jones' comedic patriotic wartime hit, it heils right in Der Fuehrer's face. |
| User ReviewMagnoliaSouth XGood movie. I didn't see a thing wrong with it, (caution, spoilers) except that they kind of left what happened to Helga hanging out there. As for "alarming images", there are none. That's just silly. |
| User ReviewAllan CVery loosely based on historical events, this WWII propaganda pieces unfortunately doesn't hold up over the test of time, despise a solid cast. Georege Sanders goes undercover as a Nazi to uncover a dastardly Nazi plot to, you guessed it, blow up America. Ward Bond is onboard to also fight the dirty Nazis and you've also got Charles McGraw and John "Schultz" Banner of "Hogan's Hero's" fame playing dirty Nazis. Despite a silly story, the cast makes it worth watching. |
| User ReviewTyshann M10/22/08 the flixster plot synopsis basically gives away the entire plot of the film! |