You'll fry for this!

Rating: 6/10 (8 September 2014)

***SPOILERS*** Given the "Masters", director Alf Hitchcock, touch the movie is a lot better then it could have been without O'l Alfie directing it. It's about a man Barry Kane, Robert Commings, on the lamb for a crime that he didn't commit: Treason against the USA. It was in fact Barry's co-worker, who was not even employed there, at the aircraft plant Frank Fry, Norman Lloyd, who after a fire broke out at the plant handed Barry a fire extinguisher that was filled with gasoline that ended up burning the place down and killing Barry's friend and person he handed it to Ken Mason, Virgil Summers. Now on the run and wanting to prove his innocence Barry tries to track down Fry and have his brought to justice, in the electric chair, before he dose any more damage as well as clear his name.
It's pretty model Pat Martin, Priscilla Lane, who after being kidnapped by him hooks up with Barry, Pat is obviously suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome, in finding Fry and his cohorts who are planning to do bigger and worser things to the USA! That in bombing the both the Hoover Dam and sinking at it's launching at the Brooklyn Navy Yark the latest US battleship the USS Alaska. As it turns out Fry belongs to this group of saboteurs who want to knock the USA out of the war, against Germany & Japan, before it even starts going full blast.
***SPOILLERS****The exciting final takes place at of all places the Statue of liberty where the fleeing Fry is totally isolated, surrounded by Manhattan Bay, with no where to go but up with Barry and a squad of New York City policemen and FBI agents chasing him. Fry could have easily escaped on the mainland with the help of his fellow senators but choose to go to Liberty Island for no other reason, as far as I could tell,but to see the sights! Wearing a cheap suit that he bought in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, off a pushcart peddler, and dangling on the statue's Torch of liberty Fry gets cooked by, with Barry losing his grip on him, falling some 130 feet to his death below.
What's so unusual about this film is that were never given the name of the country that Fry and his fellow saboteurs working for even though it was obvious to anyone watching it was Hitler's Germany! It may have been that the movie was made before the attack on Pearl Harbor and before Germany's,four days later, deceleration of war on the USA. That in it's distributors not trying to increase the tensions with the German Government, which were high already, that the USA was still at peace with. P.S Look for Actor Robert Mitchum in a walk-on role as an aircraft worker, which he in fact was, earlier in the film going with both Barry & Ken to the plant mess-hall before the deadly fire broke out.