Oh, and in #EspionageAgent Joel McCrea calls his mother "Mother", like in THE SILVER CORD. Never a good sign!! #TCMParty

#EspionageAgent is a sort of a low-rent rehearsal for FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. Joel McCrea is a dense all-American hunk who finally "gets wise" in the last reel. Always glad to see Martin Kosleck and Hans von Twardowski: anti-N*zis, lovers, and FOD (Friends Of [Marlene] Dietrich) IRL #TCMParty

Is the 1939 thriller #EspionageAgent the filmic birth of both the wartime OSS and the SuperSpy genre? CineSavant’s #GlennErickson considers the film’s new #WarnerArchiveCollection DVD-R to be a good encoding of the Nazi spy picture: