Yellow Canary
Yellow Canary is a 1943 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Richard Greene and Albert Lieven. Neagle plays a British Nazi sympathizer who travels to Halifax, Canada, trailed by spies from both sides during the Second World War. Neagle and director/producer Wilcox collaborated on a number of previous film projects.
Plot
In the Second World War, Sally Maitland appears to signal Nazi planes during a bombing raid over London, after murdering an innocent citizen in his home. The next morning, Sally boards a ship bound for Canada. Two of her fellow passengers, Jim Garrick and Polish officer Jan Orlock, seek her acquaintance, despite her long-time and well-known admiration for Nazi Germany. It soon becomes common knowledge that Jim is a British intelligence officer. Sally rebuffs his advances, but welcomes Jan's attention. Sally is, in fact, a deep cover British agent on a secret mission shadowing her quarry: Jan. Unbeknownst to Sally, Jim has been assigned to help and protect her.
More details
author | DeWitt Bodeen Miles Malleson |
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contentLocation | Liverpool London |
director | Herbert Wilcox |
editor | Vera Campbell |
events | seamanship World War II |
genre | drama |
keywords | bomb break british intelligence capture deep cover devastating accident double agent first world war german cruiser prinz eugen halifax explosion hide intelligence officer kill make up married morning naval intelligence nazi germany nova scotia open ''prinz eugen queen mary rms queen mary secret mission shadow spy ring wait world war world war i |
musicBy | Clifton Parker |
producer | Herbert Wilcox |
publisher | RKO Radio Pictures |
theme | propaganda spy |