Man from Frisco

1944 film by Robert Florey

Man from Frisco

Directed by| Robert Florey
Written by| Arnold Manoff (screenplay)
George Worthing Yates (story)
Produced by| Albert J. Cohen
Cinematography| Jack A. Marta
Edited by| Ernest J. Nims
Distributed by| Republic Pictures

Release date

* June 15, 1944 (1944-06-15)

Running time

| 91 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English
Budget| $750,000[1]

Man from Frisco (1944) is a United States feature-length spy and war film by Republic Pictures directed by Robert Florey and starring Michael O'Shea (1906–1973) and Anne Shirley.

## Plot

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Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during the Second World War who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy.

A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.[2]

The subject of the film shows some degree of wartime propaganda. The lead character is said to be based on the real-life Henry J. Kaiser, and the film is set in the Kaiser Shipyards. Like the later Betrayal from the East (1945), Man from Frisco included actual radio reports of the negotiations with the Japanese before their attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941.

## Cast

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* Michael O'Shea – Matt Braddock
* Anne Shirley – Diana Kennedy
* Gene Lockhart – Joel Kennedy
* Dan Duryea – Jim Benson
* Stephanie Bachelor – Ruth Warnecke
* Ray Walker – Johnny Rogers
* Tommy Bond – Russ Kennedy
* Robert Warwick – Bruce McRae
* Olin Howland – Eben Whelock (as Olin Howlin)
* Ann Shoemaker – Martha Kennedy
* Russell Simpson – Dr Hershey
* Stanley Andrews – Chief Campbell
* Forbes Murray – Maritime Commissioner
* Erville Alderson – Judge McLain

## Notes

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1. ^ "'Little Three' Come of Age, Ride Boom BO, Produce Costlier Films". Variety. 12 April 1944. p. 7.
2. ^ Bernard F. Dick, The star-spangled screen: the American World War II film (1996), p. 108

## External links

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* Man from Frisco at imdb.com

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Films directed by Robert Florey

* One Hour of Love (1927)
* The Romantic Age (1927)
* Face Value (1927)
* The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928)
* The Hole in the Wall (1929)
* The Cocoanuts (1929)
* The Battle of Paris (1929)
* Skyscraper Symphony (1929)
* The Road Is Fine (1930)
* My Wife's Teacher (1930)
* Love Songs (1930)
* Black and White (1931)
* Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
* The Man Called Back (1932)
* Those We Love (1932)
* Girl Missing (1933)
* Ex-Lady (1933)
* The House on 56th Street (1933)
* Bedside (1934)
* Registered Nurse (1934)
* Smarty (1934)
* I Sell Anything (1934)
* I Am a Thief (1934)
* The Woman in Red (1935)
* The Florentine Dagger (1935)
* Going Highbrow (1935)
* Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
* Ship Cafe (1935)
* The Payoff (1935)
* The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
* Till We Meet Again (1936)
* Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
* Outcast (1937)
* King of Gamblers (1937)
* Mountain Music (1937)
* This Way Please (1937)
* Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
* Dangerous to Know (1938)
* King of Alcatraz (1938)
* Disbarred (1939)
* Hotel Imperial (1939)
* The Magnificent Fraud (1939)
* Death of a Champion (1939)
* Parole Fixer (1940)
* Women Without Names (1940)
* The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
* Meet Boston Blackie (1941)
* Two in a Taxi (1941)
* Dangerously They Live (1941)
* Lady Gangster (1942)
* The Desert Song (1943)
* Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
* Man from Frisco (1944)
* God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
* Danger Signal (1945)
* The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
* Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
* Rogues' Regiment (1948)
* Outpost in Morocco (1949)
* The Crooked Way (1949)
* The Vicious Years (1950)
* Johnny One-Eye (1950)
* Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)

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