Television Spy (1939)

Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database	09.12.09

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A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it. Title: Television Spy Release Date: October 20, 1939 Runtime: 58 mins Genre: Drama All Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi Languages: English Country: USA Colors: Black and White Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 7.5 Brimstone Pit Rating: 8.5 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With T Director(s): Edward Dmytryk Cast: William Henry ...Douglas Cameron Judith Barrett ...Gwen Lawson William Collier Sr. ...James Llewellyn Richard Denning ...Dick Randolph John Eldredge ...Boris Dorothy Tree ...Reni Vonich Anthony Quinn ...Forbes Minor Watson ...Burton Lawson Morgan Conway ...Carl Venner Wolfgang Zilzer ...Frome Chester Clute ...Harry Payne Byron Foulger ...William Sheldon Ottola Nesmith ...Caroline Sheldon Hilda Plowright ...Amelia Sheldon Olaf Hytten ...Wagner, the Llewellyn butler Charles Lane ...Adler, insurance salesman Eugene Jackson ...Tommy, groom Eric Wilton ...Edgar, the Vonich butler Archie Twitchell ...Jim Winton Crane Whitley ...Tamley, a henchman (as Clem Wilenchick) Wade Boteler ...Police Sergeant Edward LeSaint ...Judge at Party Major McBride ...Life-of-Party Ivan Miller ...Senator at Party Monte Vandergrift ...Grinton Pat West ...Bunce, technician Gloria Williams ...Maid Remaining Cast: Producer(s): William LeBaron Edward T. Lowe Jr. Writer(s): Endre Bohem Lillie Hayward William R. Lipman Horace McCoy Composer(s): John Leipold Movie Trivia: The iconoscope was a real device, invented by Vladimir K. Zworykin, which was the most commonly used television camera tube at the time that this film was made. One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Experimental television station W6XYZ, located on the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood, received a construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission in 1939. It went on the air in 1942. In 1947 it was licensed for commercial broadcasting as KTLA. IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Espionage, Spy  ...[more] Keywords All: Seen it? Rate it Currently 8.50/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 8.5 out of 10.0 - 54 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST