The crowd scene at 9:47, the newsstand on the left was my Dad's, it originally belonged to his Mother's family they opened it up in 1905 when the subway came there. He was working there at the time, was 17 years old, he remembered them filming. I worked there when I was a teen, we closed it down in 1982.
I liked the (brief) street-scene, showing the electric busses, powered from overhead wires, and the trolley car! I remember these, and even rode on them as a child, only my rides were all in Milwaukee, WI in the 1950's.
Beautifully filmed. The interior shots in particular! Shadows, lighting, incidental crowd shots .... all so well designed. That was Norbert Brodine's great eye.
I remember visiting DC as a young teen in the early 70's and being so impressed by all the great gov't agencies. It was a more innocent time when most Americans still believed the gov't was working for us.🤔🙄😳
I would gladly take Hoover over anyone running things now, with their left wing socialist traitorous leanings. The America in this film would never have accepted left wing anything. They were right. Communism sucks.
My first exposure to Mr. Nolan's acting was the tv show Julia... over the years ive watched the Michael Shayne movies and a lot more. Great actor with an impressive resume. 👍👍
This is a very sigificant film, almost like some we were shown in high school history and social studies classes. It is a shame they are no longer shown. I will not give value to what they are taught tday. Excellent film, with a good blending between studio and FBI clips.
And while the US was helping the USSR fight Germany, the Russians were doing the same to the US as the germans. They also sought to recruit Americans and also worked to bring our great country down, from the inside. Both they and the Chinese did the same thing. It has NOT stopped to this day.
I remember hearing about, at the end of WWII, a German division surrendering to the British and, marching on a parallel route, they were allowed to keep their arms, for a time. Just in case they might need to join forces against the Russians.
The film plays fast and loose with the truth. Most of the film is based on the actual history of the Duquesne Spy Ring before the US went to war with Germany. The spy ring was mostly focused on industrial spying in the US, gathering information useful for German operations against the British and spying on US weapons production. The FBI operations against the spy ring were successful, not because of FBI investigations, but because one of the members of the ring contacted the FBI and confessed. None of this had anything to do with nuclear weapons or nuclear security. William Detrich was based on William Sebold. Sebold was a german military veteran of world war one who had become a US citizen just a couple years before the Germans recruited him. Obviously none of the stuff at the end of the film happened. The claim that 16,000 spies had been arrested during the war was nonsense. The six men who were executed were a set of Germans dropped into the us during the war by submarine. In that case, the leader of the team immediately went to the FBI and turned himself in. The team (aside from him) was executed and the man who turned himself into the FBI was given a long prison sentence. The FBI's anti-spying efforts during the war were mostly a failure. The Soviet Union managed to infiltrate the US nuclear weapons programs during the war and gather as much information as they wanted without the FBI detecting anything. Only years after the war did they discover anything about the Soviet spying. Its a nice looking film though.
16,000 spies... They would have had trouble finding places to hold that many. If anything the film exaggerated the abilities of German espionage, especially that of the Abwehr. Perhaps to make them more formidable than they really were.
So true. Good observations. The real story of Oppenheimer and the "Bomb" were the spy's who gave those secrets to the USSR & Stalin. Hollywood has NEVER told the whole story. Including the Rosenberg's who were caught "red" handed with secret recordings ( British) technology. Which many ( left Wing ideologues) believe was a frame up and sham. Because the Rosenberg's trials were conducted in secret for Cold war security reasons. British Intelligence pre and post WWII was littered with moles and 5 th column spy's. See, Klaus Fuchs Etal etc.
I understand the actual house used in the film, with now only a pathway leading to another dwelling as evidence of its existence, was located at 53 E93rd Street.
Thought this was well made and interesting as not American. Very informative and entertaining as well into the bargain. Good & enjoyable, thanks for posting.
@@msheart2 propaganda means lying. I saw the movie. Just because it makes our counterintelligence program look good doesn't mean it's a lie or propaganda. The fact that Hoover used it to tout the FBI's successes might aggravate some but that doesn't make it "propaganda." A film showing that Russia has free elections or that people in concentration camps have free medical care would be propaganda. Anytime somebody sees anything good from that period about this country, it's deemed propaganda.
Wow! The “actual surveillance” video of the comings and goings at the German embassy is better than anything I’ve seen from the ever-present modern CCTV cameras. Too bad we didn’t have them for, say, the Oklahoma City federal building and it’s surroundings as well as the Pentagon on 9/11/01.
The footage shot from behind the medicine cabinet was made with a Bell & Howell 70DR...a wind-up 16mm camera...and it was particularly noisy...I've used one. They left the winding handle 'open' to show it running. Nice trick.
Always interested in this great movie and have seen it before because I used to live on East 91rst St. in the early 1970s when I was single working as a fashion illustrator in mid-town. The Upper East Side, aka "Yorkville", was a predominantly German neighborhood at one point. I probably walked by on East 92nd St which isn't that far from the 92nd St YMCA, the famous Guggenheim Museum of modern art designed by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the Metropolitan Museum of Art aka the MET! BTW, the German Bund organization held a pro-Nazi parade on East 86th St and a pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939!
Always dug Lloyd Nolan as an an actor. But, this movie & and I'm a old movie buff l never saw. Wasn't taught about this spy ring in school either! Great Movie!
WHEN I FIRST SAW THE TITLE I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS THE JAMES CAGNEY OSS MOVIE. I WAS SOMEWHAT DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT I WAS WRONG, BUT THAT DID NOT STOP ME FROM WATCHING THE WHOLE MOVIE. THANK YOU!!!!!!
We sat and watched, amazed, as their files, however they worked, found the fingerprints in less than 5 minutes. Unbelievable back then! Very impressive.
That is the great theater actress Lydia St. Clair hamming it up in her leather Gestapo coat. Several times she was up for a leading role in a play but was rejected because she wasn't 'pretty' enough. You may notice in the James Bond movie 'From Russia With Love' another fine actress hams it up too - leather coat and all as 'Rosa Klebb. The roles are SO similar it must not be a coincidence.
First time I've seen this incredible picture - an absolute masterpiece that I barely decided to play. Feel like I just went to a honky tonk on a Tuesday night expecting to see a drunken, untalented solo acoustic guitarist, then walked out having just seen a surprise concert by the Rolling Stones. Holy Smokes - what an absolute gem of a film - marvelous - brilliant !!!
@@jeffpope7811 yes, and Hillary wiped her but with them without a thought for their importance. And nobody did a thing. But you cry because they raided Trumps place and found nothing of importance. They were digging and trying and came up with nothing. Just another smoke screen put on by the demons with the moto "get Trump at any cost". Shameful propaganda that only demons lap up.
It’s interesting how much explanation was required for the general public to understand what was going on…tells you how innocent most people were then. Now you wouldn’t need to explain anything to anyone.
Amazing to think that within 5 minutes a set of fingerprints could be identified from 100 million on file. This achieved with no computers. Perhaps, if nothing else, the film gives some idea of the massive manpower the FBI employed at the time.
The massive hall filled with computer card readers. The simple process to Identify a finger print only took 5 mins. Now its reduced to the size of a postage stamp with 1000 less workers. Finger print Identified in seconds. Technology is cool.
@@karenrogers7379 Karen !!!!! Just how is America not safe, or being protected right now!??!! Cite incidents that foreign agents have perpetrated in the month of August, 2022. Or tell us of any espionage agents you know about, quickly!! Thank you.
Thanks for posting. It was good to see America as the good guy again. I know the history of the FBI's corruption, but isn't it wonderful to forget that for a minute and just enjoy our nation being good?
U.S.A. has always been the best country to live in. Anyone who says different should stay the hell out. We don't want them. We're already overcrowded with Illegals draining the system, bankrupting the Hospitals & emptying the Food Banks. 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
@@tefinnegan5239 Keep Your Filthy Hands Off My Dessert! -Pink Floyd... I highly doubt you're mentally 'deep' enough to understand. Just scamper along with your brainwashed Socialist/Marxist religious dogma. Remember, one of the problems with Socialism is, you eventually run out of someone else's money.😜🤪
At an hour 4 minutes they were talking about German agents with exception memory talents. This made me think of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "The 39 Steps". It's possible this movie and that could be based on the same German espionage case.
SADLY THE FBI GOT 2 BLACK EYES TRYING TO SCHEME PRESIDENT TRUMPS PRESIDENCY!!! ALL POLITICS ASIDE,, THEY WERE GUILTY OF COLLUDING TO REMOVE A DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT ..... PETER STROEKE AND HIS STUPID IDIOTIC TEXT MESSAGES: ""WELL STOP (PRESIDENT TRUMP!) HIM, WE (WHO'S WE???) HAVE AN INSURANCE POLICY TO STOP HIM FROM BEING PRESIDENT""!!!
I love all the "modern" technology. The filing systems. The vacuum tube radios. The street cars near the Mall. Wow. We were such a different country then.
I was thinking, this is back when the FBI could be trusted but, then I remembered that J. Egar Hoover kept files on all of his potential political opponents.
Why would you have thought the FBI could ever be trusted? And it certainly never has been a friend, then or now, with the left. Particularly under Hoover it was the enforcement arm of American fascism.
BELIEVE NOTHING THAT YOU HEAR,, AND HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE~!~ THE DEMOCRATS ALWAYS PLAY DIRTY,, JUST LOOK AT WHAT CAPN' JOE-KE BLYE-DEN HAS DONE IN ONLY 2 YEARS IN ORIFICE!!!! LOL!!! GASOLINE UP 400%, AN 18 COUNT CARTON OF EGGS AT WALMART WENT FROM $1.67 .........TO .....$8.07 !!!! HE CLOSES THE KEYSTONE OIL PIPELINE IN HIS FIRST COUPLE DAYS IN OFFICE!!! WHY??? BECAUSE HE'S AN AAZZZZ IN SEARCH OF A HOLE~!~!~!~
@mike252 - Kind of like Trump's files/lists of revenge against political rivals/opponents these days!! Both men are a**holes w/WAAAY too much power!! Vote Blue 2024 💙💙!!
@ Crabby 303; you mean all the people smoking cigarettes in the movie ? you ever watch the series Drag Net. remember Sgt Joe Friday played by actor Jack Webb. the series was sponsored by a cigarette company. the smoking was intensive on Dragnet when it switched from a radio show to television. if your addicted to nicotine and some one your watching lights up , it subliminally triggers your desire for a smoke. very effective marketing technique .
@@markbahouth2713 Dragnet was sponsored by a cigarrette company. So was I Love Lucy and the Jack Benny Show. Americans were cigarrette fiends without a doubt.
@@markbahouth2713 It was real, tho. And Webb really smoked. He wanted authenticity for Dragnet, and would not have put in smoking where it was not real. Pity though, he died in 1982 of lung cancer.
Good movie. Bill Dietrich (William Eythe) his primary contact to transfer the watch would most likely would have been a staff member or custodian at the hotel where he was staying, not a jewelry store in broad daylight, much too dangerous if he was under surveillance.
J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson, who appear at the beginning of the film, were lovers. When Hoover died in 1972, Tolson inherited his estate of US$551,000 ($3.6 million today), moved into his house, and accepted the U.S. flag draped on Hoover's coffin.
One of my favorite Nazi spy films of my youth. That woman in the black leather jacket was quite the villainess and that woman portraying Mr.C, I will never forget those Stacy Adams lace up boots she wore. I had a pair just like the ones she wore. Great historical accounts of the German American Bond and process 97.
@jamesmurphy7442 Exactly! The FBI is now a shell of its former self. Participates in a coup to remove an American president. Helps disseminate fake dossiers. Pays millions to social media platforms to stifle free speech. Toss in Ruby Ridge, WACO and the 1993 WTC bombing.
Is and always was. "By deception we make war" (and perpetuate it). The ruling clan are MASTER propagandists and deceivers. "If my sons did not want war there would be none" - Gutle Schnapper Rothschild. Focus on the "Nazi"/"Al Qaeda"/"ISIS"/"Domestic Terrorist"/"Coronavirus"/"Delta Variant"/"Monkeypox" etc., menace and you'll overlook the real enemy of humanity executing NWO, or as they refer to it, Tikkun Olam.
The winter coat of the protagonist on 39 steps, is the most beautiful piece of clothing I've ever seen!! They surely knew how to make clothes and movies back then!!!
@@risseldyrosseldy910 Indeed! That back pleat!!! The fabric also seems way better than what we now have. I also dig the 17 century clothes, just fot that same reason, they where not just clothes, they where works of art (both men and the beatiful women's dresses with the narrow waist going down super wide!!!! I should have been born that era, not now..
@@risseldyrosseldy910 They also used the gallows a lot back then! It seems they like they didn't have much respect for their necks back then!! LOL Surely you made me reconsider what era I would like to live in!! hahaha
@@risseldyrosseldy910 Well, since you also took a trip along with me in the past, using my time machine, means I could charge you for the ticket for that ride! However, by subscribing at my account you earned a free ticket, I won't charge you for the ride!! hahaha!! PS I don't know how those 74 subs happened, maybe I was famous in my past life? I did the same with your 4, for the same reason, so we 're even! PS 2 Jokes aside, you look like a very knowledgable man, I really appriciate talking with you! May love and humilty run through you and your beloved ones!
The crowd scene at 9:47, the newsstand on the left was my Dad's, it originally belonged to his Mother's family they opened it up in 1905 when the subway came there. He was working there at the time, was 17 years old, he remembered them filming. I worked there when I was a teen, we closed it down in 1982.
Great story!
Lovely.
Blessings And Love.
Thanks For Sharing More History. 💮
Merry Christmas 🎄
I liked the (brief) street-scene, showing the electric busses, powered from overhead wires, and the trolley car! I remember these, and even rode on them as a child, only my rides were all in Milwaukee, WI in the 1950's.
Wow! Thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas!
Beautifully filmed. The interior shots in particular! Shadows, lighting, incidental crowd shots .... all so well designed. That was Norbert Brodine's great eye.
At 7:38, for example, the way that door opens and closes...a suit walks down the stairs...nicely done!
I remember visiting DC as a young teen in the early 70's and being so impressed by all the great gov't agencies. It was a more innocent time when most Americans still believed the gov't was working for us.🤔🙄😳
Contrast that with the current fashion of shooting interior shots with movies in color with little to no artificial lighting. Ugh!
and even the 'new technology' involved gettig explained is awesome.
Nolan was under rated...very talented.
I would gladly take Hoover over anyone running things now, with their left wing socialist traitorous leanings. The America in this film would never have accepted left wing anything. They were right. Communism sucks.
One of the most identifiable voices in the business.
Nolan has that voice you just never forget. I can be in the other part of the house and barely hear the TV but that voice is recognizable instantly.
My first exposure to Mr. Nolan's acting was the tv show Julia... over the years ive watched the Michael Shayne movies and a lot more. Great actor with an impressive resume. 👍👍
He plays the town doctor in the movie Peyton Place. His testimony in the courtroom scene is some of the finest dramatic acting I've ever seen.
He had a great role in "Blues in the Night."
Nolan has a great face for cop roles
Very well said ...
What a wonderful discovery for me to watch thank you for posting
Wonderful docunoir, with Lloyd Nolan and Signe Hasso in super form. Thanks for sharing
This may be the first time I've seen the phrase docunoir...but it fits!
J.Edgar Hoover played himself:in full make-up and a stunning evening gown.
LoL 😂🤣😆
LOL! This was years before they put Martin Luther King under full surveillance.
lmao
The decolletage made him look like a slut!
All that time we had a fruit protecting the country.
This is a very sigificant film, almost like some we were shown in high school history and social studies classes. It is a shame they are no longer shown. I will not give value to what they are taught tday. Excellent film, with a good blending between studio and FBI clips.
You wouldn’t recognize government propaganda if it hit you square in the nose would you.
I remember them showing this to us in summer camp back in the 1950s
Very well done! I love the old technology. The copy machine was a camera in a box, LOL.
And while the US was helping the USSR fight Germany, the Russians were doing the same to the US as the germans. They also sought to recruit Americans and also worked to bring our great country down, from the inside. Both they and the Chinese did the same thing. It has NOT stopped to this day.
I remember hearing about, at the end of WWII, a German division surrendering to the British and, marching on a parallel route, they were allowed to keep their arms, for a time. Just in case they might need to join forces against the Russians.
You sound soooo RACIST
Can you say .... COVID-19?
@@miker252 Patton wanted to arm all the captured Germans, and send them against Russia.
Actually USA was more flooded with russian spies than with germans by times.
Such a great quality print! Thank you!
Thank you C T for another great movie 🍿
Enjoying all your fabulous choices 🌹🌸
Thanks for sharing.
I've seen this movie a bunch of times and I enjoy it every time I see it !
Interesting, and thoroughly enjoyable...thank you for posting.
Fella pronounced dead in ambulance, lite up a smoke . Classic !
Yes! Exactly! 😂 @bongofurry
*Everyone* smoked in movies & TV up to the 60s when people started getting wise to what the tobacco companies were covering up
The film plays fast and loose with the truth. Most of the film is based on the actual history of the Duquesne Spy Ring before the US went to war with Germany. The spy ring was mostly focused on industrial spying in the US, gathering information useful for German operations against the British and spying on US weapons production.
The FBI operations against the spy ring were successful, not because of FBI investigations, but because one of the members of the ring contacted the FBI and confessed.
None of this had anything to do with nuclear weapons or nuclear security.
William Detrich was based on William Sebold. Sebold was a german military veteran of world war one who had become a US citizen just a couple years before the Germans recruited him.
Obviously none of the stuff at the end of the film happened.
The claim that 16,000 spies had been arrested during the war was nonsense. The six men who were executed were a set of Germans dropped into the us during the war by submarine. In that case, the leader of the team immediately went to the FBI and turned himself in. The team (aside from him) was executed and the man who turned himself into the FBI was given a long prison sentence.
The FBI's anti-spying efforts during the war were mostly a failure. The Soviet Union managed to infiltrate the US nuclear weapons programs during the war and gather as much information as they wanted without the FBI detecting anything. Only years after the war did they discover anything about the Soviet spying.
Its a nice looking film though.
16,000 spies... They would have had trouble finding places to hold that many.
If anything the film exaggerated the abilities of German espionage, especially that of the Abwehr. Perhaps to make them more formidable than they really were.
So true. Good observations.
The real story of Oppenheimer and the
"Bomb" were the spy's who gave those secrets to the USSR & Stalin. Hollywood has NEVER told the whole story.
Including the
Rosenberg's who were caught "red" handed with secret recordings ( British) technology.
Which many ( left Wing ideologues) believe was a frame up and sham.
Because the Rosenberg's trials were conducted in secret for Cold war security reasons. British Intelligence pre and post WWII was littered with moles
and 5 th column spy's.
See, Klaus Fuchs Etal etc.
Great film. At the very end they claim no secret was ever stolen, but the Soviets did steal the secret of the atomic bomb.
I enjoyed every minute, thank you.
Thoroughly enjoyed that! Very dramatic ending indeed.
The guy was dead i don't think the cig smoke bothered him
I understand the actual house used in the film, with now only a pathway leading to another dwelling as evidence of its existence, was located at 53 E93rd Street.
K be
Yes. I just looked on google earth. What happened? The lot is empty.
Thought this was well made and interesting as not American. Very informative and entertaining as well into the bargain. Good & enjoyable, thanks for posting.
Thank you very much for sharing 💙💙💙
A really great flick from Louis De Rochemont, the master of these docu-flicks!
doc- flicks = propaganda.
@@msheart2 propaganda means lying. I saw the movie. Just because it makes our counterintelligence program look good doesn't mean it's a lie or propaganda. The fact that Hoover used it to tout the FBI's successes might aggravate some but that doesn't make it "propaganda."
A film showing that Russia has free elections or that people in concentration camps have free medical care would be propaganda.
Anytime somebody sees anything good from that period about this country, it's deemed propaganda.
@@msheart2 ‘propaganda’ not the same as ‘lies’.
Except, maybe, from your favorite dictatorships.
Thank you very much Chris.
Wow! The “actual surveillance” video of the comings and goings at the German embassy is better than anything I’ve seen from the ever-present modern CCTV cameras. Too bad we didn’t have them for, say, the Oklahoma City federal building and it’s surroundings as well as the Pentagon on 9/11/01.
Pray for us Saint Timothy, pray for us.
Or Epstien's cell. Or Pelosi's house. There was one video of the NOT a jet that hit the Pentagon though.
@@tarstarkusz Dead people arent praying for you nor can they.
@@gigiis526 Saint Tim is frowning upon us and plotting his next glorious move.
The footage shot from behind the medicine cabinet was made with a Bell & Howell 70DR...a wind-up 16mm camera...and it was particularly noisy...I've used one. They left the winding handle 'open' to show it running. Nice trick.
It's very well done. I love what would then have been cutting edge technology.
Always interested in this great movie and have seen it before because I used to live on East 91rst St. in the early 1970s when I was single working as a fashion illustrator in mid-town. The Upper East Side, aka "Yorkville", was a predominantly German neighborhood at one point. I probably walked by on East 92nd St which isn't that far from the 92nd St YMCA, the famous Guggenheim Museum of modern art designed by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the Metropolitan Museum of Art aka the MET! BTW, the German Bund organization held a pro-Nazi parade on East 86th St and a pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939!
Supported by Joseph Kennedy too.
Yes, I know that and also supported by Nazi sympathizers Prescott Bush and others like Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh as well! Idiots to say the least!
That is a great piece of history, never knew that, thaks for posting.
YES! THANKS TO OUR CONSTITUTION, WE'RE FREE
TO HAVE YOUR OWN IDEA(L(S)!!!!!!
Ancient history ...
wow thanks for all the history on this old film. much appreciated, 🎥👍👍
ps excellent movie!!
The sequel to this great film-noir entry was “The Street With No Name”..definitely worth watching as well
Just went to it! Thank you. The Comments are The Best. So much is revealed.
I prefer that one because my man Dick Widmark is in it.
@@ricardocantoral7672Some say his performance in that flick was the basis for Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death
Do you get there on a Horse with No Name?
Always dug Lloyd Nolan as an an actor. But, this movie & and I'm a old movie buff l never saw. Wasn't taught about this spy ring in school either! Great Movie!
WHEN I FIRST SAW THE TITLE I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS THE JAMES CAGNEY OSS MOVIE.
I WAS SOMEWHAT DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT I WAS WRONG, BUT THAT DID NOT STOP ME FROM WATCHING THE WHOLE MOVIE.
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing an uplifting, patriotic movie. Love Lloyd Nolan's part. 🇺🇸💙❤
After just seeing Lloyd Nolan in "Lady In The Lake" it's good to see him playing a good guy
"patriotic" = pure propaganda
Patriotic? Propaganda is more like it.
@@billolsen4360 See Llod as the cop who' marries the widow in ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'' He was wonderful in a great film.
Wasn't this redone in 1988 As the house on Carol Street ?? Thanks for the upload !!
When the 20th Century Fox fanfare plays the imprimatur of quality film making is assured.
fantastic recap of old tech, awseome
Interesting/informative/entertaining.
Amazing the equipment that was used by the FBI back then.
The FBI equipment was state-of-the-art at the time. And amazingly completely analog. Nothing digital except for the skilled typists.
We sat and watched, amazed, as their files, however they worked, found the fingerprints in less than 5 minutes. Unbelievable back then! Very impressive.
That is the great theater actress Lydia St. Clair hamming it up in her leather Gestapo coat. Several times she was up for a leading role in a play but was rejected because she wasn't 'pretty' enough. You may notice in the James Bond movie 'From Russia With Love' another fine actress hams it up too - leather coat and all as 'Rosa Klebb. The roles are SO similar it must not be a coincidence.
9:00 is where Prince sampled the street sounds for the song 'Lady Cab Driver' from the album '1999'.
Thank You for the movie 🎥
Hoover was pulling strings for so many years. An evil little headcase. Seems he knew about what was going to happen in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963.
I don't know about Dallas, but he has been called the world's most dangerous file clerk.
@@michaeltowslee4111 to whom?
Source?
First time I've seen this incredible picture - an absolute masterpiece that I barely decided to play.
Feel like I just went to a honky tonk on a Tuesday night expecting to see a drunken, untalented solo acoustic guitarist, then walked out having just seen a surprise concert by the Rolling Stones.
Holy Smokes - what an absolute gem of a film - marvelous - brilliant !!!
This is why classified documents are so important.
YOU MEAN LIKE THE ONES THAT BIDEN & HIS CLOSET FRIENDS ARE ALLOWED TO SEE.
Because Trump THOUGHT them so!
@@jeffpope7811 yes, and Hillary wiped her but with them without a thought for their importance. And nobody did a thing. But you cry because they raided Trumps place and found nothing of importance. They were digging and trying and came up with nothing. Just another smoke screen put on by the demons with the moto "get Trump at any cost". Shameful propaganda that only demons lap up.
Boy, those days are gone forever!
Because...?
@@vernalc2449cameras, listening devices, and the internet.
The way she closes the curtain when they go to the secret room😂
It was a changing booth, the door was disguised as a mirror.
It’s interesting how much explanation was required for the general public to understand what was going on…tells you how innocent most people were then. Now you wouldn’t need to explain anything to anyone.
Signe Hasso (Elsa Gebhardt) looked like a male teenager when she was in her ultimate Mister Christopher form.
Amazing to think that within 5 minutes a set of fingerprints could be identified from 100 million on file. This achieved with no computers. Perhaps, if nothing else, the film gives some idea of the massive manpower the FBI employed at the time.
Look at what is at their fingertips within seconds now, and what they have now done with it??
And if you believe that I've got a propaganda movie that you might like to watch. Oh...you've just watched it !
And lipstick on file. I bet that was a personal interest of Hoover's.
@@frankblangeard8865 ja vol mein heir!
The population was also half what it is today & the FED government wasnt extremely bloated as it is now.
Eythe died at only 38, after a rapid descent due to alcoholism.
Rest in paradise, Bill. ✨️
Always enjoy Lloyd Nolan
I agree...He seems to have been a fine actor.
The massive hall filled with computer card readers. The simple process to Identify a finger print only took 5 mins. Now its reduced to the size of a postage stamp with 1000 less workers. Finger print Identified in seconds. Technology is cool.
That was then. Now, FBI has different tasks...
Yes, the FBI should be required to watch this and see how the FBI was once a proud organization trying to protect the USA...
Agreed now the FBI is just the next tension of the Democrat party very scary.
Factions , within , joust for dominance.
@@karenrogers7379 Karen !!!!! Just how is America not safe, or being protected right now!??!! Cite incidents that foreign agents have perpetrated in the month of August, 2022. Or tell us of any espionage agents you know about, quickly!! Thank you.
Now they are political and corrupt!
Thanks for posting. It was good to see America as the good guy again. I know the history of the FBI's corruption, but isn't it wonderful to forget that for a minute and just enjoy our nation being good?
U.S.A. has always been the best country to live in. Anyone who says different should stay the hell out. We don't want them. We're already overcrowded with Illegals draining the system, bankrupting the Hospitals & emptying the Food Banks. 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
Yes.
America was born in corruption, theft, and death. Nothing has changed.
@@lilblackduc7312 ... A fully indoctrinated bigot and proud of it.
Gross.
@@tefinnegan5239 Keep Your Filthy Hands Off My Dessert! -Pink Floyd... I highly doubt you're mentally 'deep' enough to understand. Just scamper along with your brainwashed Socialist/Marxist religious dogma. Remember, one of the problems with Socialism is, you eventually run out of someone else's money.😜🤪
At an hour 4 minutes they were talking about German agents with exception memory talents. This made me think of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "The 39 Steps". It's possible this movie and that could be based on the same German espionage case.
The 39 steps was a work of fiction that was written by the Scottish author John Buchan.
@@poundshopcicero3089 In the actual work of fiction by Buchan the memory man doesn't exist. The story was entirely changed in the movie.
@@blueyonderbird OH! darn. I love that movie.
@@louiselloyd1523 the movie is better than the book in many ways:) for me at least!
39 Steps was published in 1915 about Spies in Britain
Excellent!
Great film, thanks.
This was one of my late father's favorites.
Great movie I think I now know where the idea where the TV show The Man From UNCLE came from .
The older German spy guy in this movie was the boss of UNCLE.
@@aspenrebel Yes!---Leo G. Carroll played Mr. Waverly on that show!
@@RSEFX God we're old!!
That´s America as we used to think of back in the ´50ties to the ´70ies. Great movie indeed. Thanks for posting it.
Should be required viewing by all current FBI agents
SADLY THE FBI GOT 2 BLACK EYES TRYING TO SCHEME PRESIDENT TRUMPS PRESIDENCY!!! ALL POLITICS ASIDE,, THEY WERE GUILTY OF COLLUDING TO REMOVE A DULY ELECTED
PRESIDENT ..... PETER STROEKE AND HIS STUPID IDIOTIC TEXT MESSAGES: ""WELL STOP (PRESIDENT TRUMP!) HIM, WE (WHO'S WE???) HAVE AN INSURANCE POLICY TO STOP HIM FROM BEING PRESIDENT""!!!
Of course it's a work of fiction
I love all the "modern" technology.
The filing systems.
The vacuum tube radios.
The street cars near the Mall.
Wow. We were such a different country then.
I was thinking, this is back when the FBI could be trusted but, then I remembered that J. Egar Hoover kept files on all of his potential political opponents.
FBI was corrupt from the start.
Why would you have thought the FBI could ever be trusted? And it certainly never has been a friend, then or now, with the left. Particularly under Hoover it was the enforcement arm of American fascism.
BELIEVE NOTHING THAT YOU HEAR,, AND HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE~!~ THE DEMOCRATS ALWAYS PLAY DIRTY,, JUST LOOK AT WHAT CAPN' JOE-KE BLYE-DEN
HAS DONE IN ONLY 2 YEARS IN ORIFICE!!!! LOL!!!
GASOLINE UP 400%, AN 18 COUNT CARTON OF EGGS AT WALMART WENT FROM $1.67 .........TO .....$8.07 !!!!
HE CLOSES THE KEYSTONE OIL PIPELINE IN HIS FIRST COUPLE DAYS IN OFFICE!!! WHY??? BECAUSE HE'S AN AAZZZZ IN SEARCH OF A HOLE~!~!~!~
@mike252 - Kind of like Trump's files/lists of revenge against political rivals/opponents these days!! Both men are a**holes w/WAAAY too much power!! Vote Blue 2024 💙💙!!
I remember watching tht show with mom and Dad's an my Grandaddy an other relatives on Sunday night it's fun I like to find tht movie 🎥🍿
This has got to be one of the smokingest films I've ever, cough, seen.
@ Crabby 303;
you mean all the people smoking cigarettes in the movie ? you ever watch the series Drag Net. remember Sgt Joe Friday played by actor Jack Webb. the series was sponsored by a cigarette company. the smoking was intensive on Dragnet when it switched from a radio show to television. if your addicted to nicotine and some one your watching lights up , it subliminally triggers your desire for a smoke. very effective marketing technique .
@@markbahouth2713 Dragnet was sponsored by a cigarrette company. So was I Love Lucy and the Jack Benny Show. Americans were cigarrette fiends without a doubt.
It's weird to think how common/ popular it really was.
@@markbahouth2713 It was real, tho. And Webb really smoked. He wanted authenticity for Dragnet, and would not have put in smoking where it was not real.
Pity though, he died in 1982 of lung cancer.
Excellent, thank you.
A terrific film...
Most excellent informative movie!!!😊
I was told that there were once ash trays on almost every desk at work. It's hard to imagine.
And every drawer had a Hoover supplied issue of womens underwear...for the men as well.
Those were the good old days.
Everywhere....even in hospitals. People just didnt know. No one did.
I remember my doctor smoking during my childhood appointments, and smoking sections on airplanes!
@@kvk1960 yeah, and the smoke would just stop at the edge of the section.
Thank You,Chris!
Nice pick👍
One of my favorites!
I wonder why the film makers took license with the address. In reality, the place was an apartment on East 54th, Lily Stein's abode.
They often do that. Deflect attention.
@@hoodatdondar2664I think you’re right about that.
I JUST EVERYTHING ABOUT THOSE DAYS. THE WAY THE PEOPLE DRESSED, THE BUILDINGS, THE CARS, EXCEPT THE SMOKING.
Good movie. Bill Dietrich (William Eythe) his primary contact to transfer the watch would most likely would have been a staff member or custodian at the hotel where he was staying, not a jewelry store in broad daylight, much too dangerous if he was under surveillance.
Now the FBI be sucking
"He was Doctor Arthur C. Appleton..."
One minute later, Lloyd Nolan: "Doctor Appleman..."
J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson, who appear at the beginning of the film, were lovers. When Hoover died in 1972, Tolson inherited his estate of US$551,000 ($3.6 million today), moved into his house, and accepted the U.S. flag draped on Hoover's coffin.
Why is that important to this film?
@@jackmcqueen979 I see you are a queen too, like Hoover and Tolson. Imagine that.
@@BellaFirenze okay jackass. You don’t have a cogent thought in your peanut sized head.
@@BellaFirenze imagine you’re an imbecile
Maybe they were just investigating each other's secret covert mechanisms searching for any harmful REDS........! Federal Body of Investigation....
One of my favorite Nazi spy films of my youth. That woman in the black leather jacket was quite the villainess and that woman portraying Mr.C, I will never forget those Stacy Adams lace up boots she wore. I had a pair just like the ones she wore. Great historical accounts of the German American Bond and process 97.
Signe Hasso looked like a teenage boy when she was in man’s clothing.
When the FBI was pro America!
By their actions of the last few months, it shows that they still are.
I've walked passed this place dozens of time on my way to the doctors. I never knew.
That Signe Hasso was quite a looker, too! I'm going to watch more of her films. However, her trying to make herself look like a man was hilarious!
I dated her daughter in the late 50s!
Great direction in this movie.
i agree, it was so suspenseful and exciting to watch!
Isn't it rather incredible that the mostly important confirmation took so much time to come from Hamburg ??
While I understand what you are saying, there was a war going on and everyone, especially spies, had to be very careful or risk exposure.
Terrific movie. I wonder if anyone noticed the Police Sergeant in a brief scene..only showed the back of his head and a short line...it is Paul Ford.
Mr hoover got his gown at Elsa gown shop 92nd street
I can't listen to the narrator; the energy his voice produces, but I am interested in this topic.
Such a pity that the FBI is not like that anymore! Hoover will be turning in his grave with what it has become!
Yeah like Hoovers Cointelpro. So awesome
frightening to think that brandon/harris is handling espionage
J. Edgar Hoover himself was a very corrupt controlling Narcissist. …. Big Time‼️
@jamesmurphy7442
Exactly! The FBI is now a shell of its former self. Participates in a coup to remove an American president. Helps disseminate fake dossiers. Pays millions to social media platforms to stifle free speech. Toss in Ruby Ridge, WACO and the 1993 WTC bombing.
@@TowGunner fbi has been embedded into the machinations of twitter too
Now any high school kid with any intelligence can find out how to make a nuclear bomb.. It's not a secret anymore.
@Green Sneakers & Ham I Am Walmart.
@Green Sneakers & Ham I Am could be, I'll have to check.
At this point in history, I don't believe WWII ever ended
Oh, how things have changed.
The F.B.I. what a joke that organization is.
Is and always was. "By deception we make war" (and perpetuate it). The ruling clan are MASTER propagandists and deceivers. "If my sons did not want war there would be none" - Gutle Schnapper Rothschild. Focus on the "Nazi"/"Al Qaeda"/"ISIS"/"Domestic Terrorist"/"Coronavirus"/"Delta Variant"/"Monkeypox" etc., menace and you'll overlook the real enemy of humanity executing NWO, or as they refer to it, Tikkun Olam.
Farcical to the max.
A pretty practical joke.
All those klansmen they picked up were not laughing.
OH HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
BTW...Signe Hasso was a smokin' hot babe.
Good stuff
The Women Turn Out To Be Mr Christopher
Why give a spoiler?
Is that Morey Amsterdam (uncredited) playing the vaudeville agent at about 1:05?
1:04:00 - HEY! that's the plot in "The 39 Steps!"
The winter coat of the protagonist on 39 steps, is the most beautiful piece of clothing I've ever seen!! They surely knew how to make clothes and movies back then!!!
@@risseldyrosseldy910 Indeed! That back pleat!!! The fabric also seems way better than what we now have. I also dig the 17 century clothes, just fot that same reason, they where not just clothes, they where works of art (both men and the beatiful women's dresses with the narrow waist going down super wide!!!! I should have been born that era, not now..
@@risseldyrosseldy910 They also used the gallows a lot back then! It seems they like they didn't have much respect for their necks back then!! LOL Surely you made me reconsider what era I would like to live in!! hahaha
@@risseldyrosseldy910 Well, since you also took a trip along with me in the past, using my time machine, means I could charge you for the ticket for that ride! However, by subscribing at my account you earned a free ticket, I won't charge you for the ride!! hahaha!!
PS I don't know how those 74 subs happened, maybe I was famous in my past life? I did the same with your 4, for the same reason, so we 're even!
PS 2 Jokes aside, you look like a very knowledgable man, I really appriciate talking with you! May love and humilty run through you and your beloved ones!
The conversation when the two are hand buffed and in bed...is the highlight of the movie.
The building @11:41 is the D.C. Armory...still standing in NE DC.
Absolutely