The Woman on Pier 13

Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.

Cast

Laraine Day

as Nan Lowry Collins

Robert Ryan

as Bradley Collins / Frank Johnson

John Agar

as Don Lowry

Thomas Gomez

as Vanning

Janis Carter

as Christine Norman

Richard Rober

as Jim Travers

William Talman

as Bailey, younger henchman

Paul E. Burns

as J.T. Arnold

Paul Guilfoyle

as Ralston

G. Pat Collins

as Charlie Dover

Reviews

John Chard

You can't quit. They wont let you! The Woman on Pier 13 (AKA: I Married a Communist) is directed by Robert Stevenson and collectively written by Charles Grayson, Robert Hardy Andrews, George W. George and George F. Slavin. It stars Robert Ryan, Laraine Day, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, Janis Carter,...

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