Waterfront (1944)

★★★★★ · Good movie · jimelena · 2006-10-25

It is an oddly structured film but that sort of adds to it's interest. The only thing I don't get is at the end the cops just show up out of the blue and start shooting. Did I miss something?

★★★ · Top Billing Goes to the Nazis · rclo · 2011-07-03

Just a gander at the billing tells us that the movie is dominated by the Nazi characters. I like espionage flicks, but this one plods along, initially, at a pace that makes the threat to the Nazi spy ring seem like no big deal, notwithstanding the claim that the loss of "the book" could get them all hanged. Their quest to retrieve the book started of as though it was an afterthought. The movie never establishes just what it is that makes these Nazi spies "spies." Jerry doesn't do a very good job of defending himself at the scene of the killing (or, evidently, at the Grand Jury). Why didn't he…

★★★ · Nazi Spies ~ low budget and John Carradine~ 3 STARS · ebaycrap22 · 2012-03-24

made during World War 2~ low budget ~ an Optometrist is the cover for a Nazi Spy network~ this movie stars with a hint of comedy as 2 drunks stagger out of a BAR and witness the robbery~ of a CODE BOOK~ from the Eye Doctor~ as his Nazi contact shows up (JOHN CARRADINE) to pass on the coded message and ends up tracking down the thief who want a $5,000 for the book but gets a bullet in return ~ with the code book back~ the spies are soon trying to organise but the 3 DEAD people killed by Carradine all have their bullets match and now the cops are looking for him~ this meaders around a bit ~…

★★★ · Waterfront · terracesider · 2006-02-11

This film moves along entertaingly enough for about 50 minutes or so but then a deus ex machina comes out of the blue and the threads are wound up very quickly. So quickly that I wondered if it had been cut to a required theatre length by studio executives. Be that as it may, I found this worth watching because, for once in a film from this peroid, the Gestapo agents are played as "normal" human beings rather than as caricatures. As a result, John Carradine's fine performance, as a thuggish but nervous Nazi spy, radiates an unusually intense aura of evil.

★★ · Carradine Miscasted · Chez_When · 2010-08-28

Decent story, predictable spy vs. spy plot. Worth watching John Carradine as the villain. He should have been cast as the "good-guy" in this one. Other actors bland, boring and forgettable.