Passport to Alcatraz

1940
1h

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Noah Beery Jr., Cecilia Callejo, and Jack Holt in Passport to Alcatraz (1940)

George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is k... Read allGeorge Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuy... Read allGeorge Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuyvesant who heads the sabotage ring. Aided by his partner Ray Nolan. Hollister arrests an a... Read all

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Jack Holt

George Hollister

Noah Beery Jr.

Ray Nolan

Cecilia Callejo

Karol Roy

Maxie Rosenbloom

Hank Kircher
(as Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom)

C. Henry Gordon

Leon Fenten

Guy Usher

Thomas L. Lindsey - District Attorney

Clay Clement

Drexel Stuyvesunt

Ivan Lebedeff

Bogen

Ben Welden

Bender

Robert Fiske

Reed

Harry Cording

Jeffers

Brooks Benedict

Radio Broadcaster
(uncredited)

Al Bridge

James Carver
(uncredited)

Jack Chefe

Secretary at Meeting
(uncredited)

Kernan Cripps

Dispatcher
(uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum

Policeman
(uncredited)

Gus Glassmire

Policeman
(uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

Policeman
(uncredited)

Director
- Lewis D. Collins
Writer
- Albert DeMond
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Efficient adventure yarn.

Except a couple of serials which he made with Ray Taylor for Universal Pictures in the forties, I don't remember to have seen any movie from director Lewis D Collins. It was obviously a very obscure director whose movies are maybe not worth digging too deep into the archive vaults. Only a time waster that I found byy chance - or hazard - in my catalogue, my own library. So I said: Why not? And I am not deceived but not excited either. It is not fast paced but not actionless however. With a sleeping pill, you won't make it, for sure. It is an espionage yarn with criminal elements. Jack Holt, I also discovered him several decades ago in an obscure serial, non Republic one, and that's all.

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Routine Jack Holt Pre WWII Saboteur B Entry

By 1940 Jack Holt who had been a leading man at Paramount in the 20s and the star of several early talkies directed at Columbia by the up and coming Frank Capra, had slipped to heading B action films. Passport to Alcatraz played on double bills as it was only an hour long and is of interest mainly as one of a number of movie depictions of the edgy mood of America on the verge of entry into World War II .It shows a group of foreign agents headed by a wealthy businessman involved in scamming passports and sabotaging explosives makers.One of the bad guys is played by character actor C Henry Gordon who would die later that year.