Secret Agent X-9 | |
Director: | Ford Beebe Clifford Smith |
Producer: | Ben Koenig Barney A. Sarecky Henry MacRae |
Starring: | Scott Kolk Jean Rogers David Oliver Monte Blue Henry Brandon |
Music: | Clifford Vaughan |
Cinematography: | Richard Fryer Jerome Ash |
Editing: | Saul A. Goodkind Leete Renick Brown Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
Runtime: | 12 chapters (232 minutes) |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Secret Agent X-9 (1937) is a Universal film serial based on the comic strip Secret Agent X-9 by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond.
G-Men learn that "Victor Brenda", a notorious jewel thief, is heading for the US, to steal the Belgravian crown jewels currently on exhibit. The jewels are placed on a ship bound for Belgravia. However, the guard is murdered and the treasures are stolen. Agent Dexter, alias Agent X-9, trails Blackstone, one of the gang members, who hides the jewels in a safe deposit vault of a bank. He takes the bank receipt to an art shop, where Marker, a paid accomplice, conceals it between an oil painting and its frame. Dexter arrests Blackstone and pursues Marker with the full intention of unmasking Brenda.
Secret Agent X-9 was based on the comic strip by Dashiell Hammett (writer) and Alex Raymond (artist).
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