Submarine Alert

German spies are transmitting shipping secret shipping news to Japanese submarines off the coast. The Feds are aware of this, so they fire resident alien electrical engineer Richard Arlen -- he's from Minnesota, but he has a French name -- and then promptly lose track of him as the Nazis try to recruit him, and Wendy Barrie snubs him.

It's a sub-par efforts from producers William Pine and William Thomas, Paramount's favorite B team, who never produced a money-losing movie in their careers. Director Frank MacDonald doesn't seem to put much effort into the film, and Maxwell Shane's script is arranged like a serial, only the cliffhangers are paced uninterestingly. With Nils Asther as an emigre scientist, Abner Biberman as a Japanese sub commander, and Dwight Frye as a creep.