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...Edgar Hoover's G-men saved the day is the tense story of The House on 92nd Street. The desperate goings-on centering around an inconspicuous Manhattan brownstone building (run by talented Swedish Actress Signe Hasso) escape the routine of cloak-&-dagger melodrama by their realism...
...Manhattan Engineer District" was the purposely deceptive name given the project. Its centers were full of G-men. Its couriers were Army officers, brief cases chained to their wrists. It rated highest priorities for men and materials. From dozens of universities and industrial plants physicists, chemists and mathematicians vanished into thin air; the Manhattan District had snatched them...
...candidates, that you can almost smell the sachet along with the tear gas and gunpowder. The picture recalls how this born delinquent knocked over a string of banks, a mail train, a harmless elderly couple and two of his associates; and how at last his girl betrayed him to G-men, who shot him down as he walked out of a nickelodeon. Fortunately, this old-fashioned story is told in an old-fashioned way. The result: a tough, tight, tense, tricky little melodrama...
...deposit checks up to $8,000, forged on the first firm. By the time the bank sent out its statements and the forgeries were discovered, Alexander Thiel would have made his killing and vanished. In twelve years he took more than $200,000 from the biggest Manhattan banks. Exasperated G-men, unable to discover his identity, listed him on their files...
Looking for clews, the police found a large wooden chest. Then a screen of wartime secrecy dropped down around the investigation, with the local U.S. G-men showing interest. In the chest were German and Japanese propaganda, elaborate maps, photos of important U.S. bridges, and a photo of one of the victims in the company of a "Japanese imperial personage." There was also a Japanese flag with insignia which suggested that the notorious Black Dragon Society might reach as far as Peru...