The producer of the March of Time documentary newsreels, Louis De Rochemont, joined forces with the FBI to create this It-Really-Happened thriller involving wide-eyed college kids, transvestite Nazis, and atomic bomb secrets. Dateline 1939: A ring of Nazi provocateurs is at work in New York City, and only German-American university student Bill Dietrich can crack it! “Adapted from cases in the espionage files of the FBI” as the prologue convincingly blares, The House on 92nd Street was filmed on “actual locations,” including FBI headquarters, while some outdoor crowd shots were taken from a special surveillance van borrowed from the Bureau. The FBI's friendliness was returned by the film's producers, who fashioned a veritable feature-length ad for the agency (complete with target audience, the graduating collegian, as hero). Indeed, House's unholy alliance between studio entertainment and government boosterism triggered several other based-on-a-true-story agency-supported films (including Anthony Mann's T-Men and Hathaway's own Call Northside 777), though few match this work's downbeat naturalism and unfortunately timeless paranoia about the immigrant Other.