Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

MartinHafer Let's cut to the chase--this is a cheap and rather dopey film. This isn't exactly a surprise, as it's from Monogram Studios--a production company that specialized in making low-budget B-movies. Occasionally, their Bs were pretty good--but often they were just quickly made and dreary....and "Foreign Agent" is clearly in the latter category. Plus, like so many of the wartime films, it has all the jingoistic clichés you'd expect.The film begins with a bang. In a well-conceived and filmed opening scene, a dead man is found hanging in an apparent suicide. Naturally, it's really a murder and Axis agents are behind this because they wanted to steal this man's invention. What follows are tons of Nazi and Japanese agents in America that look JUST LIKE Nazi and Japanese spies!! They are about the most unsubtle lot you could imagine and I almost expect one to look just like Hitler!! In addition, like many Bs, there are supporting characters tossed in for laughs who aren't the least bit funny nor the least bit believable. Subhuman, perhaps...but not the least bit believable.The bottom line is that unless you really like bad B-movies, there are thousands of better made films from the era that clearly would be more interesting and entertaining than this film. Not horrible but also not good at all apart from the opening scene.

blanche-2 I vaguely remember Gale Storm from "My Little Margie," or maybe it was "Oh Susanna," though possibly one or both of these were in syndication by the time I saw it.Here she plays Mitzi Mayo, a Hollywood starlet whose father had plans for a searchlight filter which would be helpful to the Allies. She and her friend Jimmy (John Shelton) attempt to keep both the Japanese and the Germans from getting the blueprints after her father is killed.There is no point going into how dumb this film is, with its bad print, the Germans and Japanese joining forces, and a Hollywood starlet foiling their evil plot.Gale Storm sings a couple of songs. She made a ton of movies of this ilk before turning to television, with two successful series. "My Little Margie" had silent movie star Charles Farrell in it. Both Farrell and Storm lived nice long lives - maybe it was something in the water.Ordinary B, probably made in two days for less than $100.

gordonl56 FOREIGN AGENT - 1942This war time flag-waver was put out by bottom feeder studio, MONOGRAM. If their films look like they were filmed in a week, it was because they were! These low budget efforts were all for the cheaper movie house's double and triple bills.In this one, we have Nazi agents doing what they can to sabotage the US war effort. The main plot revolves around the blueprints of a special searchlight. The Nazi types kill the inventor but fail to find the papers. That is because the inventor's daughter, Gale Storm, has them hidden.Storm, is an actress, and singer who shares an apartment with stunt-woman, Patsy Moran. She is also stepping out with fellow actor and soon to be undercover FBI man, John Shelton. In for comic relief is truck driver Lyle Latell, who is also Moran's squeeze. (The plot holes in this one Latell could drive his truck through) Hans Schumm plays the head of the Nazi spy ring with help from Lithuanian-born Ivan Lebedeff doing a terrible job of pretending to be a Japanese spy. There are also several American criminal types helping the Nazis for cash.The story stumbles along forever with sub plots that go nowhere, and a couple poorly staged fistfights. By the time the end rolls around the viewer is ready to commit hari-kari.If it was not for Moran and Latell, the film would be a total waste of 64 minutes. Though, the 20 year old Miss Storm shows a few flashes of talent. Storm would move up the film ranks to better studios and bigger budget projects. She would really hit it big in the mid 50's with several successful television series. These were, MY LITTLE MARGIE (1952-55) and THE GALE STORM SHOW (1956-60) Film noir fans will recall her from roles in ABANDONED, THE UNDERWORLD STORY and BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN.The director was William "One Shot" Beaudine. There was no such thing as a re-take on a Beaudine production.

sol **SPOILERS** One of the 350 movies and TV shows directed by the legendary William "One-Shot" Beaudine in being that he never re-shot a scene no matter how bad it was. "Foreign Agent" has to do with this group of Nazi spies working right out of Hollywood who are trying to get their hands on this blueprint of a defused military search light. The search light will be able to spot and detect enemy planes and at the same time not give away its position. Thus preventing it from being blown to pieces by the attacking war planes when they get sight of it.The Nazi Agents lead by American hoodlum Nick Dancy and his Japanese cohort Okura break into the hotel room of Hollywood studio electronic expert Mr. Mayo ransacking the place after murdering him and, by hanging Mayo from the ceiling lamp, making it look like a suicide. For all their hard and murderous efforts Dancy & Okura fail to find Mayo's important blueprint of the defused search light in that he never had it with him in the first place. Being chewed out by their boss head Nazi Spy Dr. Warner for screwing everything up the two decide to track down Mayo's daughter Mitzi whom their sure, and right for once, has the blueprint in her possession.Trying to fill up some one hour of screen time were made, among other things, to sit through a boring fight scene that really has nothing to do with the movies, thin as it is, storyline involving Mitzi's friend and roommate Joan Collins and her hard headed as well as hard drinking boyfriend Eddie McGurk. It turns out that the Nazis mistaking Joan, who was driving Mitzi's car, for Mitzi mugged her and stole Joan's $10.00 engagement ring given to her by Eddie! How the Nazis could mistake a cheap ring, that looked like it came out of a box of Crackerjack, for a search light blueprint is never made clear in the movie!Later when Eddie confronts the two Nazi Agents at a local bar he has it out with them in the most exciting, if you can call it that, scene in the film. The hard hitting Irishman's boxing ability resembled that of the swishy and cream puff style of "Slapsy Maxie" Rosenberg then that of the explosive one two combination knockout punches of Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis! Were also given to understand in how successful the Nazi Agents are in a newsreel involving an attack on a, what seems like , American convoy in the North Atlantic. This is all done so haphazardly that you have no idea who not only the good and bad guys are but aren't really sure in what ocean, the Atlantic or Pacific, the action is taking place in!As you would expect it's the Nazis headed by Dr. Warner who end up fumbling the ball, or search light, and end up getting caught red handed by the FBI and local police. Not only is Dr. Warner on the outs with the US Government, facing a quick trail and execution for espionage, but his fellow Nazis as well. That's in Dr. Warner being set up, by Mitzi and her boyfriend Jimmy, in framing him in secretly turning his by now very confused and disoriented fellow Nazis Spys over to the US Military Authorities.The future "My Little Margie" Gale Storm, as Mitzi Mayo, is about the best reason for watching this mess of a movie. Gale not only does a fairly good job of acting but sings the films two songs:"Down Deep in my Heart" and the patriotic and butt kicking, for the boys on the front lines, "Taps for the Japs".