Secret Agent of Japan

thriller, USA, 1942, 72 min.

Režie: Irving Pichel
Herci: Preston Foster, Lynn Bariová, Noel Madison, Victor Sen Yung, Janis Carterová, více...




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In 1937, cynical American Roy Bonnell runs a nightclub in Shanghai with his Roumanian partner, Victor Eminescu, and continually refuses offers to be bought out by Isoda Saito, head of a Japanese gambling syndicate. One evening, Roy is intrigued by a beautiful British woman, Kay Murdock, and another woman, Doris Poole, who both request a letter sent to the club, addressed to Captain Karl Larsen. Roy follows Kay to her hotel after she steals the letter, and there she tells him that she is an agent for a jade-buying concern that is attempting to purchase a valuable collection offered by Larsen. For a considerable percentage, Roy allows Kay to substitute her name for that of jade connoisseur Pierre Solaire as the person whom Larsen is to contact. Roy is then warned by Fu Yen, a Chinese lawyer, that Eminescu has been arrested by the Japanese secret service. Upon arriving at their headquarters, Roy learns that Saito is actually the head of the secret service, and that Eminescu is being questioned both about a jade deal and Doris Poole. Saito informs Roy that his lawyer met with an "accident" a few minutes earlier, after which Eminescu is tortured to death. Roy escapes, but upon returning to his club, finds that his employees have been replaced by Japanese, and that his wall safe has been ransacked. Larsen arrives and collects his letter, after which Roy finds Doris' body in a closet. Before she died, Doris wrote "CDA=Mulhauser" on the wall. Because she is wearing the same unusual earrings as Kay, Roy suspects that they were in league and goes to Kay's hotel. He overhears her talking to Saito and will not accept her subsequent explanation that both she and Doris are British intelligence agents sent to capture Saito and an unknown agent named Mulhauser who is directing a mysterious action in the Pacific. When Larsen arrives and gives her a jade sword handle and a list of numbers, Kay explains that the numbers are a coded message to Mulhauser. Planning to sell them to the highest bidder, Roy steals the list and sword handle. The next morning, Roy goes to Solaire's shop, where Saito is waiting for him. Kay and two fellow agents rescue Roy from Saito, but he escapes from them and goes to hide at the house of his friend, Roumanian Constantine Dimitrius Alecsandri. Upon seeing a cigarette case with Alecsandri's initials, Roy realizes that he is the secret agent Mulhauser who killed Doris. Alecsandri confirms Roy's suspicions, then threatens to torture Kay, whom Saito has captured, if Roy does not give him the list and sword handle. After deciphering the code, which states that the operation in Hawaii is ready, Alecsandri and Saito reveal to Roy that he could have prevented the upcoming attack on Pearl Harbor if he had given the sword handle to Kay, for it contains the names of Japanese agents in Hawaii. As Saito is about to kill Roy and Kay, they are rescued by Fu Yen, who reveals that he is a secret agent for Chiang Ki-Shek. Fu Yen extracts a promise from Roy to join the Chinese Army as a mechanic, and Roy and Kay kiss as they board a plane bound for Chunking.
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