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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen is a 1942 black-and-white thriller film, directed by James P. Hogan and written by Ellery Queen, the duo of Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay.

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Directed byJames P. Hogan
Written byEric Taylor
Manfred Lee
Frederic Dannay
Arthur Strawn
Produced byRalph Cohn
StarringWilliam Gargan
Margaret Lindsay
Charley Grapewin
CinematographyJames S. Brown Jr.
Edited byDwight Caldwell
Music byLee Zahler
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • July 30, 1942 (1942-07-30) (USA)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish

The film was the final entry in the Ellery Queen film series.

Plot

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During World War II, Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize haul of industrial diamonds, which are being smuggled from Holland to the United States via Egypt. The gems are hidden inside a sarcophagus in order to throw both the Nazis agents and the American authorities off the scent. When the smuggler is murdered upon arrival in the US, Ellery Queen and his police-inspector father attempt to solve the killing.

Cast

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Production

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The film was original titled Ellery Queen Across the Atlantic, and was produced in May 1942[1]

References

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  1. ^ Blottner, Gene (2011). Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926-1955: The Harry Cohn Years. McFarland. pp. 181–182. ISBN 978-0786433537. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
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