The Dawn Express

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.

Top Cast

Michael Whalen

Robert Norton

Anne Nagel

Nancy Fielding

William Bakewell

Tom Fielding

Constance Worth

Linda Pavlo

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Capt. Gemmler

Jack Mulhall

Chief Agent James Curtis

George Pembroke

Prof. Karl Schmidt

Kenneth Harlan

Agent Brown

Robert Frazer

John Oliver

N/A

Hans von Morhart

Heinrich

Michael Vallon

Argus

Willy Castello

Otto

C. Montague Shaw

Franklin Prescott (uncredited)

Poppy Wilde

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)