A TRICK OF FATE MADE THEM BOTH ENEMY AND LOVER.
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
- 5.8
- 1934
- Released
- 1h 22m
Marion Davies
Gail Loveless
Gary Cooper
Captain Jack Gailliard
Jean Parker
Eleanor
Katharine Alexander
Pauline
Ted Healy
Doctor Hitchcock
Russell Hardie
Littledale
Henry Wadsworth
John Pelham
Douglass Dumbrille
General Stuart
Willard Robertson
Captain Channing
Fuzzy Knight
Sweeney
Sidney Toler
Major Allen
Robert McWade
Colonel Sharpe
Marjorie Gateson
Mrs. Shackleford
Wade Boteler
Gaston
Walter Long
Operator 55
Donald Mills
Medicine Show SingerHarry Mills
Medicine Show SingerHerbert Mills
Medicine Show SingerJohn Mills
Medicine Show Singer
Sam McDaniel
Rufus (uncredited)
Francis McDonald
Denton (uncredited)
Reginald Barlow
Colonel Storm (uncredited)
Hattie McDaniel
Annie (uncredited)
Clarence Wilson
Josiah Claybourne (uncredited)Franklin Parker
John Hay (uncredited)
John Larkin
Fisherman (uncredited)
E. Alyn Warren
General Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)
Etta Moten
Slave At Medicine Show (uncredited)
Sterling Holloway
Wounded Union Soldier (uncredited)
Curly Howard
Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Slave at Medicine Show ( Uncredited)Martin Turner
HickmanReleased
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- #female spy
- #pre-code
- #based on short story
- #american civil war
- #confederate spy
- #19th century
Reviews
Well if you thought that “Batman” had a poor disguise, just wait to you see Marion Davies in this quite entertainingly predictable American Civil War adventure. “Gail” has been recruited by the original Mr. Pinkerton to act as a spy for the Yankees down amongst the Johnny Rebs and so blackens up, sports a washer-woman’s garb and adopts an accent that is supposed to help her pass as a serving wench