The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are top-billed, the central character is supporting-actor Roland Varno. He plays a Nazi spy who sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not until plenty of bullets have been spent. The most interesting aspect of The Unwritten Code is the casting of Savage and Neal as the "good" characters: in 1945, these two cult favorites would play the decidedly unsavory protagonists of the film noir classic Detour.
Ann Savage
as Mary Lee Norris
Tom Neal
as Sgt. Terry Hunter
Roland Varno
as Cpl. Karl Richter
Howard Freeman
as Mr. Norris
Mary Currier
as Mrs. Norris
Bobby Larson
as Willie Norris
Teddy Infuhr
as Dutchy Schultz
Marie Blake
as Nurse (uncredited)
Blake Edwards
as Swede (uncredited)
Morton Lowry
as Roland Cheever (uncredited)
Philip Van Zandt
as Ulrich, German Soldier (uncredited)
Otto Reichow
as Heinrich Krause (uncredited)
