Smashing the Spy Ring
Cast & Crew
Christy Cabanne
Ralph Bellamy
Fay Wray
Regis Toomey
Walter Kingsford
Ann Doran
Film Details
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Synopsis
At Duncan Aircraft, John Baxter and Ted Hall, government agents impersonating factory employees, capture Quirk, a spy whose real name is Schuster. However, they are unaware of another spy in the plant, Steve Corbin, who telephones Dr. L. B. Carter and follows his orders to have Schuster shot before he can talk. John and Ted are reassigned to Washington, D.C. to work with Phil Dunlap, whose attractive sister Eleanor is a friend of John. Phil goes to see his girl friend, Madelon Martin, an entertainer; she gives him a ring. After Phil infiltrates a spy meeting at Carter's sanitarium, his ring gives his real identity away, and he is executed. John, Ted and Eleanor discover the body, and John comforts Eleanor by declaring that Phil's work to keep men free must be carried on. When a man finds a bill offering a reward outside the sanitarium and apparently dropped by Phil, John and Ted become suspicious. They take up Phil's investigation of the American Chemical Co., where Professor Leonard's new poison gas is being tested. Leonard's associate, Jordan, is then discovered to be a spy. As a trap, John suggests a public demonstration of the gas at the Harding Proving Grounds, where he impersonates Leonard. During the demonstration, a spy films the event with a camera hidden in an ice cream truck. Ted pretends to have been killed by an accident involving the gas, and Leonard is reported to have gone insane over his friend's death. Eleanor, meanwhile, insists on assisting in the dangerous case, taking on the identity of Leonard's concerned sister, and Madelon suggests that she contact Carter, a specialist in such cases. Still impersonating Leonard, John enters the sanitarium, feigning amnesia while investigating Carter's offices. Carter and his cohorts try to trick him into revealing the formula for the poison gas, until Corbin happens to visit and remembers John, and Madelon finds the ring she gave Phil in Leonard's apartment. John and Eleanor are trapped in the sanitarium, but he holes up in the lab and defends himself by throwing bottles of acid at Carter's men. Finally the police arrive and round up the spy ring. John and Eleanor plan to marry, while Ted writes the story of their experiences.
Director
Christy Cabanne
Cast
Ralph Bellamy
Fay Wray
Regis Toomey
Walter Kingsford
Ann Doran
Warren Hull
Forbes Murray
Lorna Gray
Paul Whitney
John Tyrrell
May Wallace
Dick Curtis
Trevor Bardette
Lee Prather
Stanley Brown
Robert Fiske
Morgan Conway
Bob Walker
Joe Palma
Philo Mccullough
Byron Foulger
Don Brodie
Harry Strang
Henry Taylor
Ed Fetherston
Mike Blair
Sam Ash
Charles Moore
Beatrice Curtis
Reginald Simpson
Jack Egan
Walter Merrill
Charles Hamilton
George Magrill
Ed Laughton
Bud Geary
Rose Allen
Cy Schindell
Bess Flowers
Ralph Brooks
Crew
Lionel Banks
Ed Bernds
Irving Briskin
Norman Deming
Jack Fier
Arthur T. Horman
Dorrell Mcgowan
Dorrell Mcgowan
Stuart E. Mcgowan
Stuart E. Mcgowan
Allen G. Siegler
M. W. Stoloff
James Sweeney
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Notes
The working titles of this film were International Spy and Spy Ring. In the film, all of the spies have both Germanic appearances and accents, although they are not identified as Germans. Publicity items give the name of the character played by Ann Doran as Madelon DuBois instead of Madelon Martin.
