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Actors: Lloyd Nolan, William Eythe, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The House on 92nd Street |
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THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET is a Fox production directed by Henry Hathaway in 1945. It earned the 1946 Academy award in the Best Writing, Original Story category.
F.B.I. agent George A. Briggs asks Bill Dietrich, a German-American engineer, to work as a double agent in Elda Gebhardt's organization. Elda lives in a mansion situated in 92nd street where the German spies in the U.S. bring their informations to, and from where these informations are sent to Germany. Dietrich, after having been trained in a German spy school in Hamburg, Germany, is sent back to NYC with the mission to send by radio to Germany the stolen informations brought by the spies. These pieces of informations are of course slightly modified by the F.B.I. before Dietrich sends them. Now, Dietrich is asked by agent Briggs to discover who is Mr. Christopher, a top Nazi spy, no one among Elsa's organisation seems to have had the opportunity to see or meet.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The House on 92nd Street |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 80%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- finding a spy/saboteur
The terrorist enemy is...
- racists/kkk/nazis
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- government investigator
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- spy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Body type
- average (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Washington D.C.
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 (a fair amount)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- run over
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
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