A young man accused of sabotage goes on the run to prove his innocence.
Los Angeles aircraft worker Barry Kane evades arrest after he is unjustly accused of sabotage. Following leads, he travels across the country to New York City trying to clear his name by exposing a gang of fascist-supporting saboteurs led by apparently respectable Charles Tobin. Along the way, he involves Pat Martin, eventually preventing another major act of sabotage. They finally catch up with Frank Fry, the man who actually committed the act of sabotage at the aircraft factory.—alfiehitchie
This riveting wartime thriller stars Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding confrontation and it remains a suspense classic.
Barry Kane works at a US military aircraft factory. When the factory is sabotaged and his best friend killed suspicion falls on him. He sets out to find the man he suspects was the actual saboteur. It is a journey fraught with danger where nobody can be trusted.—grantss
In Los Angeles, in the lunch time in an airplane factory, the workers Barry Kane and Ken Mason accidentally stumble upon their coworker Frank Fry and his money and correspondence fall on the floor. While having lunch, there is a fire at the paint shop, and Kane, Mason and Fry run to try to extinguish the fire. Fry gives a potable fire extinguisher to Kane and Mason takes it from him. However, the fire increases and Mason dies. Soon it is discovered that the fire was not an accident but sabotage and the fire extinguisher had gasoline instead of extinguishing fluid. Kane is accused of being a saboteur and is wanted by the police, but he flees. He recalls the address in Fry's correspondence of Deep Springs Ranch and hitchhikes to the place by truck. The owner of the ranch, Charles Tobin, attends him and says that he does not know Frank Fry. However, his two-year-old granddaughter drops some correspondence from Fry and Kane realizes that the man is lying. But Tobin has called the police and Kane is arrested. While going to jail, Kane succeeds in escaping and walks until the isolated house of Philip Martin, who is blind. Philip welcomes Kane and when his niece Patricia "Pat" Martin arrives, he asks her to take Kane to a friend that is blacksmith to get rid of his cuffs. However, Pat does not believe that Kane is innocent, and he is forced to abduct her. They end up in the middle of the desert with the car broken. Kane wants to head to an isolated village where Fry might be to prove his innocence. Buy how to reach the place without a car?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Munitions worker Barry Kane is falsely accused of setting fire to the Stuarts Aircraft Factory in Los Angeles, a fire that caused the death of his best friend, Ken Mason. Barry realizes that the real saboteur is Frank Fry, the man who handed him a fire extinguisher, which turned out to be full of gasoline. Remembering that Fry had an envelope addressed to him from the Deep Springs Ranch in Springfield, California, Barry goes there to find the killer, but the ranch's owner, Charles Tobin, tells him that he does not know Fry. Tobin's granddaughter, however, hands Barry a telegram addressed to Tobin from Fry stating that Fry is going to Soda City. Although Tobin has Barry arrested, Barry manages to escape from the police by jumping off a bridge. He then seeks refugee from a rainstorm in the home of blind composer Philip Martin. His sanctuary is invaded by the arrival of Martin's niece, New York model Patricia Martin, and though Philip senses Barry's innocence, Pat attempts to turn him over to the police. The fugitive is then forced to abduct her, and when their car breaks down in the California desert, Barry and Pat hitch a ride with a circus troupe. Later, they arrive in the ghost town of Soda City, which, they discover, is the hideout of saboteurs Freeman and Neilson. Barry is able to convince the killers that he is one of them, so Freeman offers him safe passage to New York City. Pat is convinced of Barry's duplicity as well, so she goes to the police. Once in New York, Freeman takes Barry to the mansion of society woman Mrs. Henrietta Sutton, where Pat is now being held by the saboteurs. Tobin then arrives and declares that his operation has been exposed by Pat's uncle and that Barry is not a part of their operation. As the fifth columnists discuss their plans to kill Barry and Pat, the two sneak into Mrs. Sutton's society ball. After Pat is snatched away from him, however, Barry is forced to turn himself over to Tobin. The next day, the saboteurs, posing as newsreel photographers, plot to blow up the battleship U.S.S. Alaska during its christening at the Brooklyn naval yards. Barry manages to escape from the Sutton mansion by setting off the fire alarm, and he stops Fry and the other saboteurs from blowing up the battleship, though the dock itself is destroyed. The saboteurs then take Barry back to their skyscraper hideout, where the police await them, as Pat had managed to escape herself and get help. Fry escapes to a nearby movie theater, but Barry is unable to convince the police to go after him, so Pat follows the saboteur to the Statue of Liberty. There, she calls the FBI and they rush to the monument with Barry. Barry chases Fry to the statue's torch, where the saboteur slips into the statue's hand and clings desperately to the giant palm. Barry tries to save him, but when the hem of Fry's jacket sleeve tears, the murderer is sent plunging to his death.
