The Unwritten Code
(1944)

UNMASKING THE PLOT OF THE YEAR!

Released: 1944-10-26

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The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are top-billed, the central character is supporting-actor Roland Varno. He plays a Nazi spy who sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not until plenty of bullets have been spent. The most interesting aspect of The Unwritten Code is the casting of Savage and Neal as the "good" characters: in 1945, these two cult favorites would play the decidedly unsavory protagonists of the film noir classic Detour.

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Ann Savage

as Mary Lee Norris

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Tom Neal

as Sgt. Terry Hunter

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Roland Varno

as Cpl. Karl Richter

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Howard Freeman

as Mr. Norris

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Mary Currier

as Mrs. Norris

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Bobby Larson

as Willie Norris

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Teddy Infuhr

as Dutchy Schultz

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Marie Blake

as Nurse (uncredited)

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Blake Edwards

as Swede (uncredited)

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Morton Lowry

as Roland Cheever (uncredited)

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Philip Van Zandt

as Ulrich, German Soldier (uncredited)

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Otto Reichow

as Heinrich Krause (uncredited)

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Holmes Herbert

as McDowell (uncredited)

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Theodore von Eltz

as Major Spencer (uncredited)

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Fred Essler

as Schultz (uncredited)

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Knox Manning

as Narrator (uncredited)

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