Joe Smith, American
Thrilling! It Will Lift You to the Skies!
CrimeThrillerDrama
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
DirectorRichard Thorpe
Cast
Robert Blake
Johnny Smith (age 5)
Russell Hicks
Mr. Edgerton
Selmer Jackson
Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
Eddie Parker
Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
Dick Wessel
Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
Cliff Clark
Police Captain (uncredited)
John Gallaudet
Captain Jack Weldren (uncredited)
Frances Morris
Miss Maynard - McKettrick's Secretary (uncredited)
Marsha Hunt
Mary Smith
Mitchell Ingraham
Drug Store Owner (uncredited)
Harvey Stephens
Freddie Dunhill
Darryl Hickman
Johnny Smith
James Millican
Aircraft Plant Foreman (uncredited)
John Raitt
Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)
Robert Young
Joe Smith
George M. Carleton
Doctor Treating Joe at Home (uncredited)
Maynard Holmes
Boyd Sheldon, Draftee (uncredited)
Robert Homans
Old Man in Waiting Room (uncredited)
Noel Madison
Schricker
William Forrest
August 'Gus' Stoffen
Mark Daniels
Pete
Dorothy Adams
Nurse (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Second Police Driver (uncredited)
Frances Raeburn
Daisy Knowlton (uncredited)
Connie Russell
Jane Babcock (uncredited)
Don Costello
Mead
William Tannen
Eddie
Frank Faylen
Man in Waiting Room with Matches (uncredited)
Ava Gardner
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Paul Kruger
First Police Driver (uncredited)
Jonathan Hale
Blake McKettrick
Billy Bletcher
Police Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Gladden James
Edgerton's Secretary (uncredited)
Robert Kellard
Mel Lewis (uncredited)
James Seay
Roy, Aircraft Plant Worker (uncredited)