review for Hidden Enemy on AllMovie

Hidden Enemy (1940)
by Hans J. Wollstein review

Warren Hull, who plays Hidden Enemy's stalwart hero, had just come to Monogram from starring in Columbia's delightful Mandrake the Magician. What a comedown, then, this ham fisted spy melodrama must have seemed in comparison. Hidden Enemy, truth be told, plays like a drawn out serial chapter but without the joie de vivre of a true action thriller. Only leading lady Kay Linaker, a fine actress-author whom Hollywood regularly misused, shows the least bit of spunk, not to mention rare intelligence, in her standard role of sleuthing girl reporter.