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Man from Frisco
Man from Frisco
Directed by	Robert Florey
Written by	Arnold Manoff (screenplay); George Worthing Yates (story)
Produced by	Albert J. Cohen
Cinematography	Jack A. Marta
Edited by	Ernest J. Nims
Distributed by	Republic Pictures
Release date	June 15, 1944;
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$750,000

Man from Frisco (1944) is a United States feature-length spy and war film by Republic Pictures directed by Robert Florey and starring Michael O'Shea (1906–1973) and Anne Shirley.

Plot

Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during the Second World War who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy.

A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.^[2]

The subject of the film shows some degree of wartime propaganda. The lead character is said to be based on the real-life Henry J. Kaiser, and the film is set in the Kaiser Shipyards. Like the later Betrayal from the East (1945), Man from Frisco included actual radio reports of the negotiations with the Japanese before their attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941.

Cast

Michael O'Shea – Matt Braddock
Anne Shirley – Diana Kennedy
Gene Lockhart – Joel Kennedy
Dan Duryea – Jim Benson
Stephanie Bachelor – Ruth Warnecke
Ray Walker – Johnny Rogers
Tommy Bond – Russ Kennedy
Robert Warwick – Bruce McRae
Olin Howland – Eben Whelock (as Olin Howlin)
Ann Shoemaker – Martha Kennedy
Russell Simpson – Dr Hershey
Stanley Andrews – Chief Campbell
Forbes Murray – Maritime Commissioner
Erville Alderson – Judge McLain

Notes

^ "'Little Three' Come of Age, Ride Boom BO, Produce Costlier Films". Variety. 12 April 1944. p. 7.
^ Bernard F. Dick, The star-spangled screen: the American World War II film (1996), p. 108