Where to Watch I Was an American Spy (1951) in the US

What it's about

Begins in documentary style when U. S. Army General Mark Clark authenticates Claire Phillips' adventures and achievements, as an American citizen who rendered invaluable services to her country in Manila during the Japanese occupation, and at the end, when she is presented a medal by a Presidential representative: Claire Phillips, a café entertainer in Manila, marries a U.S. soldier on December 8, 1941, after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, and when he is killed fighting the Japanese invasion of the Phillipines, she returns to her calling as a means of obtaining and transmitting to the American and Filipino guerillas information, supplies and services which the Filipino underground uses in its aid to the Allied forces fighting the Japanese invaders. She has narrow escapes from detection and detention, until she is finally exposed as a spy, arrested, convicted and imprisoned.

Cast and crew

Director

Lesley Selander

Writer

Samuel Roeca, Claire Phillips, Myron B. Goldsmith

Starring

Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy

Details

Release date

Apr 14, 1951

Language

English, Spanish, Tagalog, Japanese, Italian

Country

United States

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