Secret Command (1944) DVD-R

Starring Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis, Chester Morris, Ruth Warrick, Barton MacLane, Tom
Tully
Directed by A. Edward Sutherland

Print: black/white
Runtime: 82 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime
employ of the FBI. Under an assumed name, O'Brien goes to work at a shipyard, intending to
keep both eyes open for potential saboteurs. To maintain the cover, O'Brien is given a
"wife" (Carole Landis) and two children. When O'Brien's brother Chester Morris shows up,
he can't comprehend the charade and nearly spills the beans to the Nazi spies O'Brien
hopes to trap. Based on the short story The Saboteurs by John and Ward Hawkins, Secret
Command offers a graying but still feisty Pat O'Brien doing what he does best.