The Dawn Express (1942)
1942 · Feature film · 62 min · dir. Albert Herman
Lured into a trap by a Mata Hari... the lives of his loved ones was the price demanded for his honor!
- Action
- Adventure
- War
Synopsis
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula.…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Albert Herman
- Writer
- Arthur St. Claire
- Cinematography
- Edward Linden
- Studio
- PRC, Merrick-Alexander Productions
- Released
- 1942-03-27
- Running time
- 62 minutes
Cast & crew
Albert Herman Director
Michael Whalen
Anne Nagel
William Bakewell
Constance Worth
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Jack Mulhall
George Pembroke
Kenneth Harlan
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Some actors of interest · nanopossum · 2014-10-25
It's a clumsy film, I thought, the direction is very clumsy. And sometimes silly. What it felt like is they filled up time replaying the scenes again and again, changing, you know, a couple chairs, a couple characters, a couple words, each time. Hey Joe, let's have the blind man go for another walk around the block, ok? The idea of a spy playing a blind man deserved about 30 seconds if that. In this movie they kept coming back to it. The dialogue I thought very poor, lacking anything clever or unexpected, and probably is the worst part about the movie. As clever as calling the tavern 'The…
★ · Some might find this movie to be awfully funny · Kodachrome · 2014-10-03
I thought it was just plain awful. Still, I have seen worse. I could pick it apart scene by scene, but no good could come of that. On the upside, it's no worse than "reality programming" on TV and may be a bit more entertaining.
★ · Not Very Entertaining · Freebmovies · 2010-04-02
Boring
