Yellow Canary

It may not sound like it, but this is a Second World War Herbert Wilcox-Anna Neagle adventure, with Neagle spying for good old Blighty by pretending to be a Nazi sympathiser in Canada. Interestingly, the screenplay of this preposterous tosh was written by actor/playwright Miles Malleson and film historian DeWitt Bodeen, better known for his RKO Val Lewton thrillers (Cat People and The Seventh Victim). Director Wilcox hasn't a clue how to build the thrills inherent in this kind of material, and as Neagle and her intelligence shadow Richard Greene sabotage the Nazi plot to blow up a Nova Scotia harbour, the whole thing becomes gently risible. Trouble is, it wasn't meant to be funny.