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Call me a goof, but I love Louis de Rochemont's docu-noirs, especially when director Henry Hathaway is behind the lens. Since TCM ran The March of Time episodes that Louis de Rochemont helped to create several months ago, I've been looking forward to this "ripped from the files of the FBI" story about the fifth columnists who tried to infiltrate American society prior to and during WWII. The House on 92nd Street (1945) with Reede Hadley's "voice of God" narration, young William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, and that very dangerous dame, Signe Hasso, is one of the most enjoyable of these newsworthy movies. Even Leo G. Carroll gets in on the act.
Of course, the movie is entertaining as well as a 90 minute advertisement for J. Edgar Hoover and his minions as they warmed up for the McCarthy era, but some of it was fact-based and it is quite enjoyable just to see scenes filmed on the real New York streets where events occurred. A precursor to The Naked City (1947), the story centers around inklings that something called "Process 97" and a certain "Mr. Christopher" might have been of interest to those trying to learn more about the Atomic bomb, which became public knowledge only a month before this movie was released in Sept. 1945.
Does anyone else like this one?