Underground Agent

{{short description|1942 film by Michael Gordon}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Underground Agent

| image = Underground Agent poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Michael Gordon

| writer = J. Robert Bren, Gladys Atwater

| based_on =

| starring = Bruce Bennett, Leslie Brooks, Frank Albertson, Julian Rivero

| cinematography = L. William O'Connell

| editing = Arthur Seid

| producer = Sam White

| distributor = Columbia Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1942|12|03}}

| runtime = 66 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Underground Agent is a 1942 American drama film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Bruce Bennett, Leslie Brooks, Frank Albertson, and Julian Rivero.{{cite web |title=Underground Agent (1942) |url=https://www.filmaffinity.com/uk/film897022.html |website=FilmAffinity |access-date=16 November 2019 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Underground Agent (1942) |url=https://letterboxd.com/film/underground-agent/ |website=Letterboxd |access-date=16 November 2019 |language=en}} The film was released by Columbia Pictures.{{cite book |last1=Cripps |first1=Thomas |title=Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era |date=1993 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195076691 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmoviesblac0000crip/page/322 322] |url=https://archive.org/details/makingmoviesblac0000crip |url-access=registration |quote=Underground Agent (1942 film). |access-date=16 November 2019 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Rollins |first1=Peter C. |title=The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past |date=2004 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231508391 |page=135 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAMb9q7cqAgC&pg=PA135 |access-date=16 November 2019 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=III |first1=Harris M. Lentz |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2007: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture |date=2008 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786434817 |page=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t3zGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA29 |access-date=16 November 2019 |language=en}}

Plot

Two U.S. government agents (Bruce Bennett and Frank Albertson) are assigned to prevent Nazi spies involved in a eavesdropping scheme from infiltrating into a Southern California war-defense plant. To help them in their venture, one of the agents invents an ingenious word-scrambler that eventually leads them to the German spies.

Cast

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