{{short description|1944 film by Robert Florey}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Man from Frisco | image = | caption = | director = [[Robert Florey]] | producer =[[Albert J. Cohen]] | writer = [[Arnold Manoff]] (screenplay)<br>[[George Worthing Yates]] (story) | starring = | music = | cinematography = [[Jack A. Marta]] | editing = [[Ernest J. Nims]] | distributor = [[Republic Pictures]] | released = {{Film date|1944|06|15}} | runtime = 91 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $750,000<ref name="var">{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety154-1944-04/page/n46/mode/1up?q=%22brought+in+at%22|magazine=Variety|title='Little Three' Come of Age, Ride Boom BO, Produce Costlier Films|date=12 April 1944|page=7}}</ref> }}
'''''Man from Frisco''''' (1944) is a [[United States]] [[feature-length]] [[spy film|spy]] and [[war film]] by [[Republic Pictures]] directed by [[Robert Florey]] and starring [[Michael O'Shea (actor)|Michael O'Shea]] (1906–1973) and [[Anne Shirley (actress)|Anne Shirley]].
==Plot==
Matt Braddock is a [[civil engineer]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]] who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the [[West Coast of the United States|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.<ref>Bernard F. Dick, ''The star-spangled screen: the American World War II film'' (1996), [https://books.google.com/books?id=eTSMElob26QC&pg=PA108 p. 108]</ref>
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== {{div col}} *[[Michael O'Shea (actor)|Michael O'Shea]] – Matt Braddock *[[Anne Shirley (actress)|Anne Shirley]] – Diana Kennedy *[[Gene Lockhart]] – Joel Kennedy *[[Dan Duryea]] – Jim Benson *[[Stephanie Bachelor]] – Ruth Warnecke *[[Ray Walker (actor)|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 (actor)|Russell Simpson]] – Dr Hershey *[[Stanley Andrews]] – Chief Campbell *Forbes Murray – Maritime Commissioner *[[Erville Alderson]] – Judge McLain {{div col end}}
==Notes== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037045/ Man from Frisco] at imdb.com {{Robert Florey}}
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