Waterfront

Waterfront is a 1944 American film from PRC Pictures directed by Steve Sekely. Plot In San Francisco during World War II, Dr. Carl Decker (J. Carrol Naish) is a local Nazi spy leader undercover as an optometrist. While he is walking on the San Francisco waterfront at night, his decoder book and list of West Coast spies are stolen by the waterfront thug, Adolph Mertz. Victor Marlow comes to town, contacts Decker for his next assignment but the message he has is undecipherable without the book. It is a race to recover the book by two opposing teams: Decker and Marlow, and Zimmerman and Kramer; and a race to find a serial murderer. Cast John Carradine as Victor Marlow J. Carrol Naish as Dr. Carl Decker Maris Wrixon as Freda Hauser, daughter Edwin Maxwell as Max Kramer Terry Frost as Jerry Donovan, Freda's boyfriend) John Bleifer as Oscar Zimmerman, owner—Anchor Cafe Marten Lamont as Mike Gorman Olga Fabian as Mrs Emma Hauser as rooming house operator Claire Rochelle as Maisie Billy Nelson as Butch as Adolph Mertz, waterfront thug References