Unseen Enemy

Unseen Enemy

62 mins | Drama, Adventure | March 10, 1942

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.

Unseen Enemy

62 mins | Drama, Adventure | March 10, 1942

Unseen Enemy
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.
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title Unseen Enemy
Directors John Rawlins
Writers George Wallace Sayre, Roy Chanslor, Stanley Rubin

Cast

Leo Carrillo

as Nick Rand

Andy Devine

as Detective Sam Dillon

Irene Hervey

as Gen Rand

Don Terry

as Canadian Army Captain William Flynn Hitchcock, aka Bill Flinn, posing as Captain Wilhelm Roering

Lionel Royce

as German Captain Wilhelm Roering

Turhan Bey

as Ito

Frederick Giermann

as Franz Mueller, as Frederick Gierman

William Ruhl

as Detective Callahan

Clancy Cooper

as Police Inspector Alan Davies

Eddie Fetherston

as Badger - Taxicab Driver