The Dawn Express

The Dawn Express

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

NR 1942 · 62 min · ★ 5.1 · Action, Adventure, War

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.

Directed by Albert Herman · Written by Arthur St. Claire

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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

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