Roger Pryor (Mike Lawrence), Virginia Vale (Jan Martin), Lionel Royce (Burns), Lucien Prival (Raynor), Duncan Renaldo (police chief), Lester Dorr (Joe), Sam "Deacon" McDaniel (Rod), Hugh Beaumont (Paul Martin), Jack Ingram (Wilton), Warren Jackson (Lake), Edward Keane (colonel).
Director: JEAN YARBROUGH. Screenplay: Ben Roberts, Sidney Sheldon. Film editor: Guy V. Thayer, junior. Photography: Mack Stengler. At director: Paul Sylos. Music director: Alberto Colombo. Song by Sam Brown and Herb Pine. Assistant director: William Strohbach. Sound recording: Ferroll Redd. Associate producer: Melville Shyer. Producer: Ted Richmond. Executive producer: George R. Batcheller.
Copyright 24 April 1941 by Producers Releasing Corporation. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 2 May 1941. Never released in Australia. 68 minutes.
Re-issued in the USA in 1946 by Madison Pictures under the title: PANAMA MENACE.
SYNOPSIS: Accidentally a Johnny-on-the-spot, an American reporter in Panama (played with an appropriate lack of luster by Roger Pryor) meets a mysterious lady (a very appealing Virginia Vale) who is actually a Spanish nightclub singer in disguise. Or is it the other way around?
COMMENT: Dated, routinely directed hokum about spies on the loose in the Panama Canal Zone, can muster only three things to recommend it to a 2018 audience. No, make that two things, since the climactic night-time car chase doesn't come out well on television. One is the lovely Virginia Vale (borrowed from RKO for this outing) who is a talented gal in the histrionic department as well as easy on the eye. Two is the wonderful Deacon McDaniel who makes the most of a couple of very funny lines and a really hilarious (if rather macabre) situation.
Director: JEAN YARBROUGH. Screenplay: Ben Roberts, Sidney Sheldon. Film editor: Guy V. Thayer, junior. Photography: Mack Stengler. At director: Paul Sylos. Music director: Alberto Colombo. Song by Sam Brown and Herb Pine. Assistant director: William Strohbach. Sound recording: Ferroll Redd. Associate producer: Melville Shyer. Producer: Ted Richmond. Executive producer: George R. Batcheller.
Copyright 24 April 1941 by Producers Releasing Corporation. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: 2 May 1941. Never released in Australia. 68 minutes.
Re-issued in the USA in 1946 by Madison Pictures under the title: PANAMA MENACE.
SYNOPSIS: Accidentally a Johnny-on-the-spot, an American reporter in Panama (played with an appropriate lack of luster by Roger Pryor) meets a mysterious lady (a very appealing Virginia Vale) who is actually a Spanish nightclub singer in disguise. Or is it the other way around?
COMMENT: Dated, routinely directed hokum about spies on the loose in the Panama Canal Zone, can muster only three things to recommend it to a 2018 audience. No, make that two things, since the climactic night-time car chase doesn't come out well on television. One is the lovely Virginia Vale (borrowed from RKO for this outing) who is a talented gal in the histrionic department as well as easy on the eye. Two is the wonderful Deacon McDaniel who makes the most of a couple of very funny lines and a really hilarious (if rather macabre) situation.