Secret Agent X-9 | |
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Directed by |
Ford Beebe Clifford Smith |
Produced by |
Ben Koenig Barney A. Sarecky Henry MacRae |
Written by |
Charles Flanders Wyndham Gittens Norman S. Hall Leslie Swabacker Ray Trampe Dashiell Hammett (comic strip) |
Starring |
Scott Kolk Jean Rogers David Oliver Monte Blue Henry Brandon |
Music by | Clifford Vaughan |
Cinematography |
Richard Fryer Jerome Ash |
Edited by |
Saul A. Goodkind Leete Renick Brown Joseph Gluck Louis Sackin Alvin Todd |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
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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 "Brenda", 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 of the mysterious "Brenda"...
Secret Agent X-9 was based on the comic strip by Dashiell Hammett (writer) and Alex Raymond (artist).
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