The Dawn Express

The Dawn Express (1942)

Lured into a trap by a Mata Hari... the lives of his loved ones was the price demanded for his honor!

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.

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  • Release Date: 1942-03-27
  • Runtime: 1h 2min
  • Director: Albert Herman

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  • Cast

    • Michael Whalen

      Robert Norton

    • Anne Nagel

      Nancy Fielding

    • William Bakewell

      Tom Fielding

    • Constance Worth

      Linda Pavlo

    • Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

      Capt. Gemmler

    • Jack Mulhall

      Chief Agent James Curtis

    • George Pembroke

      Prof. Karl Schmidt

    • Kenneth Harlan

      Agent Brown

    • Robert Frazer

      John Oliver

    • Hans von Morhart

      Heinrich

    • Michael Vallon

      Argus

    • Willy Castello

      Otto

    • C. Montague Shaw

      Franklin Prescott (uncredited)

    • Poppy Wilde

      Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

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