The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1942
Joe Smith, American
Directed by
Richard Thorpe
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
The story
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Cast
Robert YoungJoe Smith
Marsha HuntMary Smith
Harvey StephensFreddie Dunhill
Darryl HickmanJohnny Smith
Jonathan HaleBlake McKettrick
Noel MadisonSchricker
Don CostelloMead
Joseph AnthonyConway
William ForrestAugust 'Gus' Stoffen
Russell HicksMr. Edgerton
Mark DanielsPete
William TannenEddie
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Dorothy AdamsNurse (uncredited)
Ernie AlexanderAircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
Billy BletcherPolice Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Hubert BrillCard Player in Waiting Room (uncredited)
John ButlerElias Canfield (uncredited)
George M. CarletonDoctor Treating Joe at Home (uncredited)
Cliff ClarkPolice Captain (uncredited)
Cliff DanielsonSammy, Joe's Friend in Flashback (uncredited)
Helen DicksonSchoolteacher (uncredited)
Frank FaylenMan in Waiting Room with Matches (uncredited)
John GallaudetCaptain Jack Weldren (uncredited)
Ava GardnerUndetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Eddie HartSecurity Guard at Aircraft Plant (uncredited)
Maynard HolmesBoyd Sheldon, Draftee (uncredited)
Robert HomansOld Man in Waiting Room (uncredited)
Mitchell IngrahamDrug Store Owner (uncredited)
Selmer JacksonHospital Doctor (uncredited)
Gladden JamesEdgerton's Secretary (uncredited)
Robert KellardMel Lewis (uncredited)
Richard KiplingHarry - Car Driver (uncredited)
Paul KrugerFirst Police Driver (uncredited)
Warren McCollumAircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
James MillicanAircraft Plant Foreman (uncredited)
Frances MorrisMiss Maynard - McKettrick's Secretary (uncredited)
Philip MorrisPoliceman Passenger (uncredited)
Kitty O'NeilMrs. Sheldon (uncredited)
Eddie ParkerAircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
Lee PhelpsSecond Police Driver (uncredited)
Frances RaeburnDaisy Knowlton (uncredited)
John RaittAircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
Connie RussellJane Babcock (uncredited)
James SeayRoy, Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
Edgar SherrodMinister (uncredited)
Al TresconyOld Man's Son in Waiting Room (uncredited)
Dick WesselAircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
Robert BlakeJohnny Smith (age 5)
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