The House on 92nd Street is a 1945 black-and-white film in the film noir genre. The movie (unlike its follow up, The Street with No Name) was shot mainly in New York City. The film was directed by Henry Hathaway and won screenwriter Charles G. Booth an Academy Award for the best original motion picture story. The film's scenes with FBI agents in Washington were played by actual agents. Released shortly after the end of World War II, The House on ...
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The House on 92nd Street is a 1945 black-and-white film in the film noir genre. The movie (unlike its follow up, The Street with No Name) was shot mainly in New York City. The film was directed by Henry Hathaway and won screenwriter Charles G. Booth an Academy Award for the best original motion picture story. The film's scenes with FBI agents in Washington were played by actual agents. Released shortly after the end of World War II, The House on 92nd Street was made by Twentieth Century Fox with the full cooperation of the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover appears during the introduction. The film's semidocumentary style inspired other films including The Naked City.
The movie is a drama about the destruction of a Nazi spy ring operating in the US. Lloyd Nolan would reprise his role as Inspector Briggs in the sequel, The Street with No Name (1948). In that film, Briggs and the FBI agents would take on organized crime.
The film is also a thinly disguised version of the FBI's real-life Duquesne Spy...
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