Unseen Enemy
Released: March 10, 1942Runtime: 62 min
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
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Irene Hervey
as Gen Rand
Don Terry
as Canadian Army Captain William Flynn Hitchcock, aka Bill Flinn, posing as Captain Wilhelm Roering
Leo Carrillo
as Nick Rand
Andy Devine
as Detective Sam Dillon
Lionel Royce
as German Captain Wilhelm Roering
Turhan Bey
as Ito
Frederick Giermann
as Franz Mueller
William Ruhl
as Detective Callahan
Clancy Cooper
as Police Inspector Alan Davies
Eddie Fetherston
as Badger - Taxicab Driver
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