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Blood on the Sun (1945)

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A Tokyo newspaperman gets hold of a document that powerful people want buried.

1945 · Espionage thriller · 94 minutes

Synopsis

In Tokyo in 1929, American newspaper editor Nick Condon publishes a report about a secret plan for Japanese military expansion. When the police come asking where he got the story, Nick races to get the document out of the country. Iris Hilliard might be able to help, if he can work out whose side she’s on.

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Meet the stars

James Cagney
James Cagney — Nick Condon
Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney — Iris Hilliard
Porter Hall
Porter Hall — Arthur Bickett
John Emery
John Emery — Baron Giichi Tanaka
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong — Colonel Tojo
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford — Ollie Miller

Production credits

Director: Frank Lloyd
Producer: William Cagney
Screenplay: Lester Cole, from a story by Garrett Fort
Cinematography: Theodor Sparkuhl
Editing: Truman K. Wood and Walter Hannemann
Production design: Wiard Ihnen
Production company: Cagney Productions
Distributor: United Artists

Full credits and production history at the AFI Catalog

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