Yellow Canary

Yellow Canary - 1943 | 95 mins | Drama, Thriller | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Herbert Wilcox.
Producer: Herbert Wilcox.
Script: P.M. Bower, Miles Malleson and DeWitt Bodeen.
Cinematography: Mutz Greenbaum.
Film Editing: Vera Campbell.
Art Direction: William C. Andrews.
Makeup Department: Tony Sforzini.
Sound Department: Desmond Dew, Harry Miller and John Stevens.
Original Music: Clifton Parker.

The 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

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.