Directed by:
Frank LloydScreenplay:
Lester ColeComposer:
Miklós RózsaCast:
James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford, Rosemary DeCamp, John Halloran, Hugh Beaumont, Marvin Miller, Sam Harris (more)Plots(1)
Reporter Nick Condon (James Cagney) works for a newspaper in Tokyo and publishes a story exposing the Japanese government’s imperialist plans. When government officers seize the newspaper, Nick finds himself at the center of a cover-up led by ruthless Premier Giichi Tanaka (John Emery). Harried by agents Colonel Hideki Tojo (Robert Armstrong) and Captain Oshima (John Halloran), Nick goes on the lam, meets a mysterious woman and has a dramatic confrontation on his way to the American Embassy. (Bounty Films)
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A good spy spectacle that still has a decent edge and momentum after all these years. It may ooze American patriotism, but that can easily be excused by the year of its creation. James Cagney is a good tough guy, who has no problem tossing Japanese men from one end of the room to the other (except that in the final one-on-one battle he seems to have been replaced by a stuntman) while charismatically seducing a dangerous beauty. Everything is more than well filmed, there are very dramatic moments (harakiri)... I give it four and a half stars. It’s too bad about the last sentence about "forgiving the enemy only after you've made up", which was unnecessary and almost inappropriate. All they needed to do was not shake hands and walk away in silence.
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