Alan Ladd heads the players' list, and although his part is minor in the context, he is the one worth following in this film, a bold early effort to sound an alert of things to come by the accelerating threat of Nazi Germany. There were quite a few films like this made for urgent warnings of the rearmament of Germany, and this was one of the first and in many ways prophetic. It clearly states for instance that Hitler's frenzy in rearming Germany and building up an invincible revenge army actually cost Germany its main resources for economical rehabilitation, where the reinforcement should have been, while Hitler instead put it into army force, perhaps his greatest mistake. The script is poor, the characters are all rather stereotypical, while only Alan Ladd adds some interest by his reluctance and hesitation, which he feels will lead him astray which it does. The main character is. Roland Drew as Hans Memling, a communist leading an underground resistance movement mainly by publishing and spreading pamphlets, who's wife is expecting a child. The main story is about them. The Nazis are grossly exaggerated as monstrous bullies long before even the war had begun, but that's the main interest of the film: it was released in America in October 1939 long before there was any general awareness of the coming war, which the film repetitively predicts, or of what Hitler's Germany really was all about. The main credit of this film is the early effort to cry wolf long before anyone in America could even suspect any such thing.