6/10
A web of spies
23 April 2006
Warning: Spoilers
A compelling WW2-era propaganda film dealing with Japanese and American espionage, where a carnival showman becomes mixed up in it all, as he decides to foil Jap plans to sabotage the Panama Canal. This takes him oversees where he was to be a patsy, but ends up a hero instead.

He falls for a lovely double-agent, a-la Mata Hari, as she does for him, yet their love becomes most complicated until she perishes in a tragic twist. Two times in one film!

After a long and nasty fight with a Japanese military official disguised as a shipman, he becomes a rather martyred character for the glory of the stars and stripes. A special message for audiences awaits at the end.
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