The Dawn Express
“Lured into a trap by a Mata Hari... the lives of his loved ones was the price demanded for his honor!”
1942•NR•1h 2m•5.1•Released
ActionAdventureWar
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
Director
Albert Herman
Writer
Arthur St. Claire
Languages
English
Studio
PRC
Cast
Michael Whalen
Robert Norton
Anne Nagel
Nancy Fielding
William Bakewell
Tom Fielding
Constance Worth
Linda Pavlo
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Capt. Gemmler
Jack Mulhall
Chief Agent James Curtis
George Pembroke
Prof. Karl Schmidt
Kenneth Harlan
Agent Brown
Robert Frazer
John Oliver
Hans von Morhart
Heinrich
Michael Vallon
Argus
Willy Castello
Otto
C. Montague Shaw
Franklin Prescott (uncredited)
Poppy Wilde
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Production
Company
PRC
Company
Merrick-Alexander Productions
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