The New Pictures, Mar. 19, 1945

Betrayal from the East (RKO-Radio) is vouched for by Drew Pearson as a true story. Eddie Carter (Lee Tracy), an ex-soldier who likes easy money, uneasily decides to pick up $10,000 of it by selling the Japanese his country's plans for the defense of the Panama Canal. Then he lets G-2 know about it. One G-2 agent (Regis Toomey) helps out by impersonating a crooked Canal Zone sergeant who hands Tracy a complete set of obsolete plans; another (Nancy Kelly) saves Tracy's life at the cost of her own. These and other complications...

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