Contrabando de guerra

William Gargan is Ellery, Margaret Lindsay is Nikki Porter, and Charley Grapewin is Inspector Queen in the last of Columbia's 1940s series. In this one, their confronted with Sig Ruman running a fat farm as a front for spies, Gilbert Roland winding up dead in a mummy, and similar goings on.

It's very much a movie for the moment, and there are a few minor gags; Ruman doesn't get his joke in until the end. James Hogan, the director, entered films in the early 1920s as a writer. and director After a miscellaneous career that included camera work and set design, he died in 1943, age 53.