Yellow Canary
Yellow Canary – 1943 | 95 mins | Drama, Thriller | B&W
Plot Synopsis
Melodramatic wartime thriller from the husband and wife team of Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle in which an undercover agent is approached by a Nazi spy with a scheme to sabotage a Nova Scotia harbour.
Sally Maitland (Anna Neagle), daughter of an aristocratic British family has achieved notoriety for her pre-war association with the Nazis. Public antagonism to her is so violent that she is practically forced to leave Britain for Canada. Sally is actually working for the British government to smash an Axis spy ring in Canada.
Production Team
Herbert Wilcox: Director
William C Andrews: Art Direction
Mutz Greenbaum: Cinematography
Vera Campbell: Film Editing
Tony Sforzini: Makeup Department
Clifton Parker: Original Music
Herbert Wilcox: Producer
DeWitt Bodeen: Script
Miles Malleson: Script
PM Bower: Script
Desmond Dew: Sound Department
Harry Miller: Sound Department
John Stevens: Sound Department
Cast
Anna Neagle: Sally Maitland
Richard Greene: Lt Commander Jim Garrick
Nova Pilbeam: Betty Maitland
Albert Lieven: Jan Orlock
Lucie Mannheim: Madame Orlock
George Thorpe: Colonel Charles Hargraves
Marjorie Fielding: Lady Maitland
Franklin Dyall: Captain Foster
Margaret Rutherford: Mrs Towcester
Valentine Dyall: German Commander
