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Submarine Alert is a american film of genre War directed by Frank McDonald released in USA on 28 june 1943 with Richard Arlen
Submarine Alert (1943)
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Add to a movie listSubmarine Alert (1943) is an American film directed by Frank McDonald, produced by Pine-Thomas Productions and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was the last in a series of three Pine-Thomas adventure films that included Forced Landing (1941) and Flying Blind (1941). The film stars Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie, Nils Asther, Roger Pryor, Marc Lawrence and Ralph Sanford.
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During World War II, with shipping being sunk by submarines and with an American scientist working on radio technology killed by Nazi spies, FBI agent G. B. Fleming (Roger Pryor) comes up with a plan to catch the Nazis. He believes that radio signals are alerting the Germans about ship movements. His plan is to fire all the local radio specialists, who likely will seek any employment, including working with the enemy. Tailing the jobless radio men will help the FBI find the Nazis.Actors
Richard Arlen
(Lewis J. 'Lee' Deerhold)
Wendy Barrie
(Ann Patterson)
Nils Asther
(Dr. Arthur Huneker)
Roger Pryor
(G.B. Fleming)
Abner Biberman
(Commander Toyo)
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