slanting

1942-03-10 | 62 min. | Drama, Adventure

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.

Leo Carrillo

Nick Rand

Andy Devine

Detective Sam Dillon

Irene Hervey

Gen Rand

Don Terry

William Flynn Hitchcock / Bill Flinn

Lionel Royce

German Captain Wilhelm Roering

Turhan Bey

Ito

Frederick Giermann

Franz Mueller, as Frederick Gierman

William Ruhl

Detective Callahan

Clancy Cooper

Police Inspector Alan Davies

Eddie Fetherston

Badger - Taxicab Driver