Byron Keith

An ex-Nazi is allowed to escape from a German war crimes prison after WWII to lead the Allies to a notorious spy planning to revive the Third Reich. The trail leads to a small Connecticut town where intrigue and murder combine for a tense situation.

Charles Rankin (Orson Welles), an escaped Nazi criminal responsible for unspeakable brutality during the Holocaust, is now living as a history professor in a small American town, with plans to wed Mary (Loretta Young), the daughter of a judge. But a wily government agent (Edward G. Robinson) pursues him and tries to convince Mary of Rankin's crimes, leading to an action-packed confrontation you won't soon forget! Welles directs this stylish and nail-biting...