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| Directed by | Roy William Neill |
| Written by | Clarence Upson Young Lynn Riggs |
| Produced by | Marshall Grant |
| Starring | Constance Bennett Don Porter John Litel Edward Brophy |
| Cinematography | George Robinson |
| Edited by | Ted J. Kent |
| Music by | Hans J. Salter |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 63 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Madame Spy is a 1942 Americanspy film directed byRoy William Neill and starringConstance Bennett,Don Porter andJohn Litel.[1] It was produced and distributed byUniversal Pictures. The screenplay concerns an American intelligence officer who goes undercover and infiltrates a ring ofNazi spies.
The film opens with war correspondent David Bannister marrying Joan during anair raid in England. When they return to the U.S., theirocean liner is sunk by a German submarine. They and others escape aboard lifeboats and are rescued.
David becomes a radio reporter and does anexposé on the Nazi connections of an American industrialist who is an associate of Alicia Rolf, Joan's close friend. Peter, the head of aNazispy ring, then kills the industrialist to protect the espionage organization. David begins to suspect Joan of having Nazi sympathies, but his friendLt. Cmdr. Drake defends her. David's suspicions worsen when he discovers Joan has received atelegram telling her about an espionage bombing on theWest Coast.
David and histaxicab driver friend, Mike, trail Joan to a meeting with Carl Gordon, who was also a passenger on the sunk liner. David is sure Joan is unfaithful to him. When Drake is killed, newspapers claim he was investigating a Nazi spy ring.
Peter asks Joan to stay with him at his country home, and she agrees. David and Mike follow, and are captured. Before Peter can kill them, he is himself felled by an assassin's bullet. David alerts the FBI to the spy ring, but is told that all the Nazis have already been captured. The agent tells David that Joan and Carl are both American spies, who were working to break the ring. David and Joan reconcile.
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