Joe Smith, American
“Thrilling! It Will Lift You to the Skies!”
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Cast
Robert Young
Joe Smith
Marsha Hunt
Mary Smith
Harvey Stephens
Freddie Dunhill
Darryl Hickman
Johnny Smith
Jonathan Hale
Blake McKettrick
Noel Madison
Schricker
Don Costello
Mead
Joseph Anthony
Conway
William Forrest
August 'Gus' Stoffen
Russell Hicks
Mr. Edgerton
Mark Daniels
Pete
William Tannen
Eddie
Dorothy Adams
Nurse (uncredited)
Ernie Alexander
Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher
Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Hubert Brill
Card Player in Waiting Room (uncredited)
John Butler
Elias Canfield (uncredited)
George M. Carleton
Doctor Treating Joe at Home (uncredited)
Cliff Clark
Police Captain (uncredited)
Cliff Danielson
Sammy, Joe's Friend in Flashback (uncredited)
Helen Dickson
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Frank Faylen
Man in Waiting Room with Matches (uncredited)
John Gallaudet
Captain Jack Weldren (uncredited)
Ava Gardner
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Richard Thorpe
- Writing
- Paul Gallico, Allen Rivkin
- Producers
- Dore Schary, Jack Chertok
- Music
- Daniele Amfitheatrof
- Cinematography
- Charles Lawton Jr.
- Editing
- Elmo Veron
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