The House on 92nd Street

1945

Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / War

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 3513 3.5K

new york city spy fbi world war ii based on true story treason

Plot summary

The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.

Director

Henry Hathaway Photo
Henry Hathaway

Top cast

Frank Richards Photo
Frank Richards as German Spy Trainee
Gene Lockhart Photo
Gene Lockhart as Charles Ogden Roper
Lloyd Nolan Photo
Lloyd Nolan as Inspector George A. Briggs
Signe Hasso Photo
Signe Hasso as Elsa Gebhardt
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808.51 MB
1280*958
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.47 GB
1440*1078
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AaronCapenBanner 7 / 10

Spy Address.

Henry Hathaway directed this spy film presented in semi-documentary fashion starring Lloyd Nolan as FBI Inspector George Briggs, who is in charge of the counter-terrorist division that recruits German-speaking William Dietrich(played by William Eythe) to infiltrate a cell of German spies sent to America to gather information on the construction of the atomic bomb. The FBI allows its 92nd. street headquarters to remain open in order to identify its highest-level operatives, which involve a Mr. Christopher, though Dietrich's main contact is a woman(played by Signe Hasso) How long before he can identify his targets, or end up identified himself? Fine film effectively uses the semi-documentary approach, with Lloyd Nolan the standout, and would reprise the role in semi-sequel "The Street With No Name".
Reviewed by classicsoncall 7 / 10

"I don't believe you, Mister."

This was my first look ever at actors William Eythe and Signe Hasso. Hasso struck me as quite the good looking woman but you didn't get to dwell on that since she never cracked a smile in keeping with her character's serious nature. Now Johanna Schmidt (Lydia St. Clair), that's another story. She just looked downright scary.The picture opens with minimalist introductory credits and proceeds in documentary fashion for a fair amount of time. I started writing down the names of all the German embassy characters mentioned in that early exposition thinking I'd have to keep track of them in the story, but that turned out to be unnecessary. It's pretty much Eythe's show as undercover FBI agent Bill Dietrich, who gets his indoctrination training in Germany, returns to the U.S. to help uncover the Nazi attempt to discover the secrets of the atomic bomb.Most of the story plays out in tense fashion, but I was bothered by the whole idea of it taking so long for Dietrich's credentials to come back and have his cover blown. Those fifth column folks seemed a bit too trusting and it seemed to me that Dietrich should have been tripped up a lot sooner than he was. Maybe Elsa Gebhardt (Hasso) should have brought out the scopolamine a bit sooner.What most impressed me about the story was the sheer numbers mentioned in terms of defining America's war effort. Four hundred FBI agents were assigned to 'Process 97', and when World War II ended, over sixteen thousand enemy agents were captured in this country. Catch this one for a look at a different facet of the war, and how foiling the enemy domestically was just as important as any battle.
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