There's just not much to say about this piece of World War II propaganda from Warner Brothers studio. George Raft is a salesman doing business in Turkey during the war. He gets mixed up with a bunch of Nazis led by British actor Sydney Greenstreet.
When you needed an actor to play a cultivated German bastard studios always hired British actors. Anyway, Raft gets mixed up with the Nazis and a Russian spy played by German actor Peter Lorre and American actor Brenda Marshall playing Lorre's sister of all things.
This is the kind of stuff that Hollywood could pump out during World War II and generally it made money even if the picture itself really wasn't that good. One of Warner Brothers best directors Raoul Walsh put this film together probably in his sleep in this case.
The film has the required amount of shootings, fistfights, car chases and double crossing spy stuff. Even for a 1940's film it's all kind of tired and boring this time.
The screenplay was by W. R. Burnett, the running time is 80 minutes.
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