61 minutos
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.
Ann Savage
Mary Lee Norris
Tom Neal
Sgt. Terry Hunter
Roland Varno
Cpl. Karl Richter
Howard Freeman
Mr. Norris
Mary Currier
Mrs. Norris
Bobby Larson
Willie Norris
Teddy Infuhr
Dutchy Schultz
Marie Blake
Nurse (uncredited)
Blake Edwards
Swede (uncredited)
Morton Lowry
Roland Cheever (uncredited)
Philip Van Zandt
Ulrich, German Soldier (uncredited)
Otto Reichow
Heinrich Krause (uncredited)
Holmes Herbert
McDowell (uncredited)
Theodore von Eltz
Major Spencer (uncredited)
Fred Essler
Schultz (uncredited)
Knox Manning
Narrator (uncredited)
