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Release Date: 1939

Cast: Sig Ruman, Hedwiga Reicher, Lionel Royce, Grace Stafford, Paul Lukas, Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, Dorothy Tree, Henry O'Neill, Lya Lys, Henry Victor, James Stephenson ...MORE

Cast: Sig Ruman, Hedwiga Reicher, Lionel Royce, Grace Stafford, Paul Lukas, Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, Dorothy Tree, Henry O'Neill, Lya Lys, Henry Victor, James Stephenson, Francis Lederer, Hans Twardowski, Joe Sawyer ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Detective fiction, Detective, Action, Black-and-white, Mystery, Propaganda, War film, Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 American spy thriller film and the first blatantly anti-Nazi film produced by a major Hollywood studio prior to World War II. The film stars Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, and a large cast of German actors, including some who had emigrated from their country after the rise of Adolf Hitler. Though the film can be seen as propaganda, it was based on the articles of former FBI agent Leon G. Turrou, who had been active in investigating Nazi spy rings in the United States prior to the war, and lost his position at the Bureau when he... MORE

Confessions of a Nazi Spy is a 1939 American spy thriller film and the first blatantly anti-Nazi film produced by a major Hollywood studio prior to World War II. The film stars Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, and a large cast of German actors, including some who had emigrated from their country after the rise of Adolf Hitler. Though the film can be seen as propaganda, it was based on the articles of former FBI agent Leon G. Turrou, who had been active in investigating Nazi spy rings in the United States prior to the war, and lost his position at the Bureau when he published the articles without permission. Despite its controversial subject, the film was a major worldwide box office hit for Warner Bros. and won the year's National Board of Review award for Best Film. Confessions of a Nazi Spy was banned in Germany, Japan, and many Latin American and European countries. Scenes from Confessions of a Nazi Spy are shown in War Comes to America, the last of the Why We Fight propaganda film series. Dr. Karl Kassel (Paul Lukas) comes to America to rally support for the Nazi cause among German-Americans. He instructs his audience at a German restaurant that the Führer LESS