Starring Bruce Bennett, Kay Harris, Edward Norris, Sidney Blackmer, Don

Beddoe

Directed by Lew Landers



Print: black/white

Runtime: 60 min.

Genre: drama

Print Quality: B



Released in late August of 1942, Sabotage Squad was the last of

Columbia's B-budget wartime melodramas of the 1941-42 season. Edward

Norris stars as Eddie Miller, a brash Broadway bookie who stumbles upon

a nest of Nazi saboteurs. Technically not the hero-Bruce Bennett and Kay

Harris are top-billed-Norris domaniates the plotline, going through much

the same "good bad guy" paces previously trod by Humphrey Bogart in

the strikingly similar All Through the Night. Sidney Blackmer, who

managed to show up in a number of low-budget films without ever giving

the impression of "slumming," provides smooth and subtle menace as

the head Nazi. Also in the cast are Columbia contractees John Tyrrell and

Eddie Laughton, taking a break from their accustomed duties in the

studio's westerns and "Three Stooges" comedies.