The crowd scene at 9:47, the newsstand on the left was my Dad's, it originally belonged to his Mother's family they opened it up in 1905 when the subway came there. He was working there at the time, was 17 years old, he remembered them filming. I worked there when I was a teen, we closed it down in 1982.

Nolan was under rated...very talented.

Beautifully filmed. The interior shots in particular! Shadows, lighting, incidental crowd shots .... all so well designed. That was Norbert Brodine's great eye.

Nolan has that voice you just never forget. I can be in the other part of the house and barely hear the TV but that voice is recognizable instantly.

This is a very sigificant film, almost like some we were shown in high school history and social studies classes. It is a shame they are no longer shown. I will not give value to what they are taught tday. Excellent film, with a good blending between studio and FBI clips.

My first exposure to Mr. Nolan's acting was the tv show Julia... over the years ive watched the Michael Shayne movies and a lot more. Great actor with an impressive resume. 👍👍

Fella pronounced dead in ambulance, lite up a smoke . Classic !

What a wonderful discovery for me to watch thank you for posting

J.Edgar Hoover played himself:in full make-up and a stunning evening gown.

Such a great quality print! Thank you!

Thank you C T for another great movie 🍿 Enjoying all your fabulous choices 🌹🌸

Interesting, and thoroughly enjoyable...thank you for posting.

Wonderful docunoir, with Lloyd Nolan and Signe Hasso in super form. Thanks for sharing

Very well done! I love the old technology. The copy machine was a camera in a box, LOL.

I enjoyed every minute, thank you.

And while the US was helping the USSR fight Germany, the Russians were doing the same to the US as the germans. They also sought to recruit Americans and also worked to bring our great country down, from the inside. Both they and the Chinese did the same thing. It has NOT stopped to this day.

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you very much for sharing 💙💙💙

I've seen this movie a bunch of times and I enjoy it every time I see it !

Thank you very much Chris.

wow thanks for all the history on this old film. much appreciated, 🎥👍👍 ps excellent movie!!

The film plays fast and loose with the truth. Most of the film is based on the actual history of the Duquesne Spy Ring before the US went to war with Germany. The spy ring was mostly focused on industrial spying in the US, gathering information useful for German operations against the British and spying on US weapons production. The FBI operations against the spy ring were successful, not because of FBI investigations, but because one of the members of the ring contacted the FBI and confessed. None of this had anything to do with nuclear weapons or nuclear security. William Detrich was based on William Sebold. Sebold was a german military veteran of world war one who had become a US citizen just a couple years before the Germans recruited him. Obviously none of the stuff at the end of the film happened. The claim that 16,000 spies had been arrested during the war was nonsense. The six men who were executed were a set of Germans dropped into the us during the war by submarine. In that case, the leader of the team immediately went to the FBI and turned himself in. The team (aside from him) was executed and the man who turned himself into the FBI was given a long prison sentence. The FBI's anti-spying efforts during the war were mostly a failure. The Soviet Union managed to infiltrate the US nuclear weapons programs during the war and gather as much information as they wanted without the FBI detecting anything. Only years after the war did they discover anything about the Soviet spying. Its a nice looking film though.

Thank You for the movie 🎥

Thank You,Chris!

Thoroughly enjoyed that! Very dramatic ending indeed.

Wasn't this redone in 1988 As the house on Carol Street ?? Thanks for the upload !!

It's very well done. I love what would then have been cutting edge technology.

Thought this was well made and interesting as not American. Very informative and entertaining as well into the bargain. Good & enjoyable, thanks for posting.

Wow! The “actual surveillance” video of the comings and goings at the German embassy is better than anything I’ve seen from the ever-present modern CCTV cameras. Too bad we didn’t have them for, say, the Oklahoma City federal building and it’s surroundings as well as the Pentagon on 9/11/01.

Thanks for sharing an uplifting, patriotic movie. Love Lloyd Nolan's part. 🇺🇸💙❤

Always interested in this great movie and have seen it before because I used to live on East 91rst St. in the early 1970s when I was single working as a fashion illustrator in mid-town. The Upper East Side, aka "Yorkville", was a predominantly German neighborhood at one point. I probably walked by on East 92nd St which isn't that far from the 92nd St YMCA, the famous Guggenheim Museum of modern art designed by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the Metropolitan Museum of Art aka the MET! BTW, the German Bund organization held a pro-Nazi parade on East 86th St and a pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939!

Brilliant film and very accurate Radio equipment and Morse transmissions. The Hammarlund receivers used are one brilliant receiver. I wonder what the modern surveillance equipment is like, it must be absolutely fabulous. 73

Excellent, thank you.

I understand the actual house used in the film, with now only a pathway leading to another dwelling as evidence of its existence, was located at 53 E93rd Street.

The sequel to this great film-noir entry was “The Street With No Name”..definitely worth watching as well

A really great flick from Louis De Rochemont, the master of these docu-flicks!

When the 20th Century Fox fanfare plays the imprimatur of quality film making is assured.

The way she closes the curtain when they go to the secret room😂

Boy, those days are gone forever!

Great film, thanks.

9:00 is where Prince sampled the street sounds for the song 'Lady Cab Driver' from the album '1999'.

fantastic recap of old tech, awseome

Always enjoy Lloyd Nolan

Amazing the equipment that was used by the FBI back then.

That is the great theater actress Lydia St. Clair hamming it up in her leather Gestapo coat. Several times she was up for a leading role in a play but was rejected because she wasn't 'pretty' enough. You may notice in the James Bond movie 'From Russia With Love' another fine actress hams it up too - leather coat and all as 'Rosa Klebb. The roles are SO similar it must not be a coincidence.

This was one of my late father's favorites.

Thanks for posting. It was good to see America as the good guy again. I know the history of the FBI's corruption, but isn't it wonderful to forget that for a minute and just enjoy our nation being good?

Amazing to think that within 5 minutes a set of fingerprints could be identified from 100 million on file. This achieved with no computers. Perhaps, if nothing else, the film gives some idea of the massive manpower the FBI employed at the time.

WHEN I FIRST SAW THE TITLE I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS THE JAMES CAGNEY OSS MOVIE. I WAS SOMEWHAT DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT I WAS WRONG, BUT THAT DID NOT STOP ME FROM WATCHING THE WHOLE MOVIE. THANK YOU!!!!!!

I love all the "modern" technology. The filing systems. The vacuum tube radios. The street cars near the Mall. Wow. We were such a different country then.

Nice pick👍

Great movie I think I now know where the idea where the TV show The Man From UNCLE came from .

A terrific film...

That´s America as we used to think of back in the ´50ties to the ´70ies. Great movie indeed. Thanks for posting it.

One of my favorite Nazi spy films of my youth. That woman in the black leather jacket was quite the villainess and that woman portraying Mr.C, I will never forget those Stacy Adams lace up boots she wore. I had a pair just like the ones she wore. Great historical accounts of the German American Bond and process 97.

One of my favorites!

This is why classified documents are so important.

I wonder why the film makers took license with the address. In reality, the place was an apartment on East 54th, Lily Stein's abode.

Thx Chris

"The FBI" Starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr !!!! (The real Good Ol Days.)

This has got to be one of the smokingest films I've ever, cough, seen.

Good movie. Bill Dietrich (William Eythe) his primary contact to transfer the watch would most likely would have been a staff member or custodian at the hotel where he was staying, not a jewelry store in broad daylight, much too dangerous if he was under surveillance.

I've walked passed this place dozens of time on my way to the doctors. I never knew.

At an hour 4 minutes they were talking about German agents with exception memory talents. This made me think of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "The 39 Steps". It's possible this movie and that could be based on the same German espionage case.

Isn't it rather incredible that the mostly important confirmation took so much time to come from Hamburg ??

Excellent!

No president was harmed or indicted in the making of of this movie

Now the FBI be sucking

I was thinking, this is back when the FBI could be trusted but, then I remembered that J. Egar Hoover kept files on all of his potential political opponents.

Terrific movie. I wonder if anyone noticed the Police Sergeant in a brief scene..only showed the back of his head and a short line...it is Paul Ford.

Most excellent informative movie!!!😊

1:04:00 - HEY! that's the plot in "The 39 Steps!"

Should be required viewing by all current FBI agents

I remember watching tht show with mom and Dad's an my Grandaddy an other relatives on Sunday night it's fun I like to find tht movie 🎥🍿

It’s interesting how much explanation was required for the general public to understand what was going on…tells you how innocent most people were then. Now you wouldn’t need to explain anything to anyone.

The Women Turn Out To Be Mr Christopher

That was then. Now, FBI has different tasks...

Thank you! :)

First time I've seen this incredible picture - an absolute masterpiece that I barely decided to play. Feel like I just went to a honky tonk on a Tuesday night expecting to see a drunken, untalented solo acoustic guitarist, then walked out having just seen a surprise concert by the Rolling Stones. Holy Smokes - what an absolute gem of a film - marvelous - brilliant !!!

At this point in history, I don't believe WWII ever ended

I was told that there were once ash trays on almost every desk at work. It's hard to imagine.

Is that Morey Amsterdam (uncredited) playing the vaudeville agent at about 1:05?

Well worth watching. classic.

A really good film

35:43 50:12 cigarette??? Yes, yes it is.

OH HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

Even the supposed Germans with heavy accents keep referring to Hamburg (Germany) by pronouncing it the same as you would say hamburger. It cracks me up! Hahahaha!

she almost got away her cohort killed her by mistake

I JUST EVERYTHING ABOUT THOSE DAYS. THE WAY THE PEOPLE DRESSED, THE BUILDINGS, THE CARS, EXCEPT THE SMOKING.

I can't listen to the narrator; the energy his voice produces, but I am interested in this topic.

The building @11:41 is the D.C. Armory...still standing in NE DC.

That was our first mistake trusting their was No turncoat. Given today's reputation I guess we were dooped from day one. For with power comes great responsibility, mankind CAN AND WILL BE COMPRISED. It was like having our own Gestapo we just could not see it because of fear of being over taken. The whole time they played this country and citizens. Gave me a whole new perspective on who is good and who is bad. For all things come to light ...very sad to say the minimum. God bless America and protect those who are real humans and are not compromised.

When the FBI was pro America!

Good stuff

Oh, how things have changed.

Protecting America from way back then to this very day ...

Boy how things have changed.

Thx Chris T. 👍🇺🇸👍

Another excellent spy movie, The Fourth Protocol with Michael Caine.

FBI now stinks at best