Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen is a 1942 black-and-white thriller film, directed by James P. Hogan and written by Ellery Queen, the duo of Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay.

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Directed by	James P. Hogan
Written by	Eric Taylor Manfred Lee Frederic Dannay Arthur Strawn
Produced by	Ralph Cohn
Starring	William Gargan Margaret Lindsay Charley Grapewin
Cinematography	James S. Brown Jr.
Edited by	Dwight Caldwell
Music by	Lee Zahler
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	July 30, 1942 (1942-07-30) (USA)
Running time	64 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English

The film was the final entry in the Ellery Queen film series.

Plot

During World War II, Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize haul of industrial diamonds, which are being smuggled from Holland to the United States via Egypt. The gems are hidden inside a sarcophagus in order to throw both the Nazis agents and the American authorities off the scent. When the smuggler is murdered upon arrival in the US, Ellery Queen and his police-inspector father attempt to solve the killing.

Cast

• William Gargan ... Ellery Queen
• Margaret Lindsay ... Nikki Porter
• Charley Grapewin ... Inspector Richard Queen
• Gale Sondergaard ... Mrs. Van Dorn
• Gilbert Roland ... Paul Gillete
• Sig Ruman ... Heinrich
• James Burke ... Police Sergeant Valle
• Ernst Deutsch ... Dr. Morse
• Maurice Cass ... Mr. Calkus
• Minor Watson ... Commander Lang
• Felix Basch ... Helm
• James Seay ... Marine Sergeant Stevens
• Ludwig Donath ... Reece
• Dick Wessel ... The Big Sailor

Production

The film was original titled Ellery Queen Across the Atlantic, and was produced in May 1942^[1]