I Escaped from the Gestapo

Ordered to bust convicted forger Torgut Lane (Dean Jagger) out of prison, Nazi agents deliver him to their Los Angeles hideout, where the spies’ leader (John Carradine) forces him to produce counterfeit bills to undermine the Allied war effort. Failing at his attempts to make an escape, Lane engraves a message on one of the plates in a daring attempt to tip off the Feds and foil the saboteurs’ plans. Although Mary Brian (The Virginian) played the female lead in I Escaped from the Gestapo, the part was originally intended for Frances Farmer, who was arrested for assaulting a hairdresser during her first day of shooting. The troubled actress was committed to a sanitarium, so her footage in a montage sequence marked Farmer’s last screen appearance for 15 years.