Characters & Themes
Fly By Night (1942) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1942 · 74 mins · English
- Directed by
- Robert Siodmak
- Starring
- Paul McVey, Oscar O'Shea, Nestor Paiva, Richard Carlson, Clem Bevans, John Butler
Jeff Burton, a young intern, impulsively gives a ride to a strange gentleman. The passenger reveals himself to be an inventor who has just escaped from a clandestine sanitarium where Nazi spies had imprisoned him. Jeff becomes drawn into the inventor’s plight, confronting the spies who still hunt him.
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