America’s Blackest Market (1942)

Titles read: “AMERICA’S BLACKEST MARKET - EXCLUSIVE PICTURES“. New York (?), United States of America. Chief of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) J Edgar Hoover is seen sitting at his desk, looking through papers and talking on the telephone. Commentator talks of the United States Department of Justice scoring a crushing victory against Nazi plots to steal military secrets and sabotage the nation’s war industry - “these agents of Adolf Hitler have now had their poisoned fangs extracted“. Various shots of some of the 33 Nazi agents arrested in the spy roundup arriving at the court; most cover their faces. We see the charged men seated in court before Commissioner Martin Epstein. Frederick Duquesue, one of the most dangerous of the spies stands up. Brief shot of sign reading ’Times Square Broadway’ and ’W 42 St’ on New York street. Nice C/U of a man using a 16 mm cine-camera. Various sequences from secretly filmed footage that caught the spy-ring. One after another the spies enter a