Secret Command

Secret Command

82 mins | Drama, Action, War | July 30, 1944

Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed name, O'BRIEN goes to work at a shipyard, intending to keep both eyes open for potential saboteurs. To maintain the cover, O'BRIEN is given a "wife" (Carole Landis) and two children. When O'BRIEN's brother Chester Morris shows up, he can't comprehend the charade and nearly spills the beans to the Nazi spies O'BRIEN hopes to trap. Based on the short story The Saboteurs by John and Ward Hawkins, Secret Command offers a graying but still feisty Pat O'Brien doing what he does best.

Secret Command

82 mins | Drama, Action, War | July 30, 1944

Secret Command
Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed name, O'BRIEN goes to work at a shipyard, intending to keep both eyes open for potential saboteurs. To maintain the cover, O'BRIEN is given a "wife" (Carole Landis) and two children. When O'BRIEN's brother Chester Morris shows up, he can't comprehend the charade and nearly spills the beans to the Nazi spies O'BRIEN hopes to trap. Based on the short story The Saboteurs by John and Ward Hawkins, Secret Command offers a graying but still feisty Pat O'Brien doing what he does best.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Secret Command
Directors A. Edward Sutherland
Writers Ward Hawkins, John Hawkins, Roy Chanslor

Cast

Pat O’Brien

as Sam Gallagher

Carole Landis

as Jill McCann

Chester Morris

as Jeff Gallagher

Ruth Warrick

as Lea Damaron

Barton MacLane

as Red Kelly

Tom Tully

as Brownell

Wallace Ford

as Miller

Howard Freeman

as Max Lessing

Erik Rolf

as Ben Royall

Matt McHugh

as Curly

Frank Sully

as Shawn

Frank Fenton

as Simms

Charles D. Brown

as James Thane

Carol Nugent

as Joan

Richard Lyon

as Paul

Dusty Anderson

as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)

Vernon Dent

as Shipyard Worker (uncredited)

Mary Gordon

as Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)

George McKay

as Joe Day (uncredited)

Pat Parrish

as Nurse (uncredited)

Cyril Ring

as Parrish (uncredited)

Dewey Robinson

as Jack Shaw (uncredited)

Ray Teal

as Shipyard Worker (uncredited)

John Tyrrell

as Yard Messenger (uncredited)

Dorothy Vernon

as Shipyard Worker (uncredited)