Navy Secrets (1939)
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
- Date of release
- 1939-02-08
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Director
- Howard Bretherton
Casting
- Fay Wray — Carol Mathews, alias Carol Stevens
- Grant Withers — Steve Fletcher, alias CPO Steve Roberts
- Dewey Robinson — Nick Salado
- André Cheron — Joe Benje
- George Sorel — Slavins
- Robert Frazer — Peter Droit
- Wilhelm von Brincken — Cronjer
- Duke York — Babe - Henchman
- Craig Reynolds — CPO Jimmy Woodford
- Joseph Crehan — FBI Chief Herbert Daly
- I. Stanford Jolley — Restaurant Waiter-Henchman
- Arthur Housman — Phoney Drunk
Interesting facts
Navy Secrets is a 1939 American espionage film. Directed by Howard Bretherton, the film stars Fay Wray, Grant Withers, and Dewey Robinson. It was released on February 8, 1939. The screenplay by Harvey Gates was based on the short story "Shore Leave" by Steve Fisher, which was originally published in the August 1938 edition of Hearst's International Cosmopolitan.
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