Navy Secrets

USA 1939
produced by
Scott R. Dunlap (executive), William T. Lackey (associate) for Monogram
directed by Howard Bretherton
starring Fay Wray, Grant Withers, Dewey Robinson, Wilhelm von Brincken, Craig Reynolds, George Sorel, André Cheron, Robert Frazer, Joseph Crehan, Duke York, Arthur Housman, Joseph W. Girard, I.Stanford Jolley
screenplay by Harvey Gates, based on the story Shore Leave by Steve Fisher, musical director: Edward J.Kay

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Since her Navy officer boyfriend Jimmy (Craig Reynolds) has been detained, Carol (Fay Wray) decides to spend the evening with his best friend Steve (Grant Withers) instead, and before you know it, romance between the two is blossoming ... which is when Steve's money runs out. Now he knows he could get a good deal of money if he delivers a certain unaddressed letter, supposedly containing some rare stamps, to someone he doesn't know, but to find out who the letter is actually for, the two of them get into a serious case of espionage, which ends in Steve being tied up and almost tortured and Carol being almost bumped off, but just when you thought the two have had it, the police arrives, arrests all the baddies, and the two lovebirds are finally introduced to each other (to noones real surprise) as FBI-agents working on the same case.

Wilhelm von Brincken plays the head of the foreign spy ring after Carol and Steve, Dewey Robinson, George Sorel, André Cheron and Robert Frazer can all be seen as members of the same ring.

Cheaply done yet well-made romantic comedy turning into espionage thriller that's greatly helped by its two leads, Grant Withers and especially Fay Wray, who really put this film, which isn't especially special, into a different league from similar fare with lesser leads.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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