Main Cast: Nancy Kelly, Richard Loo, Abner Biberman, Regis Toomey
Release Year: 1944
Country: US
Run Time: 82 minutes
Plot
With famed journalist Drew Pearson appearing in the film's prologue and epilogue, it was easy in 1945 to confuse Betrayal from the East with Real Life. Lee Tracy is once again cast as a seemingly disreputable type with a heart of gold, in this case an expatriate ex-GI named Eddie. Believing that he'd be willing to sell out his country, a Japanese spy ring approach Eddie and ask him to get his hands on secret American war plans. But Eddie is still a true-blue Son of Uncle Sam; at the behest of Army Intelligence, Eddie agrees to play counterspy, using dictaphones, phony messages and other such devices to pull the wool over the enemy's eyes. The results aren't very pretty for either Eddie or his fellow counterspy Peggy (Nancy Kelly), though the audience can take some comfort in the fact that their sacrifice was for the good of Democracy. Fairly slow going during most of its 82 minutes, Betrayal From the East comes to a startling conclusion as Peggy suffers mightily at the hands of her Japanese captors. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Betrayal from the East is a 1945 film starring Lee Tracy and Nancy Kelly. The movie was directed by William A. Berke and based on the book, Betrayal from the East: The Inside Story of Japanese Spies in America, by Alan Hynd.
Cast
Lee Tracy ... Eddie Carter Nancy Kelly ... Peggy Harrison Richard Loo ... Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani Regis Toomey ... Agent Posing as 'Sgt. Jimmy Scott' Abner Biberman ... Yamato Philip Ahn ... Kato Addison Richards ... Captain Bates, G-2
Bruce Edwards ... Purdy, G-2 Agent
Hugh Ho Chang ... Mr. Araki (billed as Hugh Hoo) Victor Sen Yung ... Omaya (billed as Sen Young)
Roland Varno ... Kurt Guenther
Louis Jean Heydt ... Jack Marsden Jason Robards, Sr. ... Charlie Hildebrand (billed as Jason Robards) Drew Pearson ... Himself
