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Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 American spy political thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros. It was the first explicitly anti-Nazi film to be produced by a major Hollywood studio, being released in May 1939, four months before the beginning of World War II and two and a half years before the United States' entry into the ...
Confessions of a Nazi Spy: Directed by Anatole Litvak. With Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, Paul Lukas. FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Considered the first anti-Nazi film produced by a major studio, Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) follows Edward G. Robinson in the role of FBI agent Ed Renard as he investigates a Nazi espionage ring headed up by dedicated National Socialist, Dr. Kassell, played by Paul Lukas in a part he patterned after Hitler himself. From the first clues in ...
Confessions of a Nazi Spy - YouTube. Buy or rent. Unrated. YouTube Movies & TV. 180M subscribers. Subscribed. 181. In the wake of a trial that convicted four Nazi agents of spying against...
In the wake of a trial that convicted four Nazi agents of spying against the U.S., Warner Bros. became the first Hollywood studio to fire a salvo at Hitler's Germany. Months before World War II erupted it released this thriller based on revelations that emerged from the trial and other real-life sources.
FBI agent Ed Renard (Edward G. Robinson) goes on the hunt for a Nazi spy ring bent on subverting the citizenry of America. Beginning with Nazi rabble-rouser Kurt Schneider (Francis Lederer ...
Based on FBI agent Leon G. Turrou’s real life takedown of a Nazi spy ring in America, Confessions of a Nazi Spy was released two years before the United States entered WWII, and boldly displayed the dangers of Nazi Germany. Almost all those involved in the making of Confessions of a Nazi Spy received death threats from Nazi sympathizers.
