Marnelle doesn't want to use his invention for evil but he's threatened by his Nazi masters, including Von Schweig with a concentration camp.
Nazi officer Von Schweig arrives in Australia and meets up with local fifth columnists who are planning sabotage on Australian planes – Miller's ends up crashing and he winds up in hospital.
By this stage the war has started and there is a scene where Von Schweig and a fifth columnist, Dr Vass, look at some Australian soldiers marching past.
Dr Vass says that he has been in Australia for a number of years and still does not understand them, adding that "you expect from their interest in sport that nothing else matters, but in war the greater the danger the harder they fought".
Shooting took place at Fig Tree Studios in Hunters Hill, Sydney with additional scenes shot at Camden.
The female star, Katrin Roselle, was an Austrian migrant who married an Australian then moved to Hollywood after the film was made.
[3] Finch was injured during filming when wind filled an open parachute he was holding and pulled him off his feet at the RAAF base at Camden.
Ken G. Hall "wasn’t impressed by" Monkman's first feature, Typhoon Treasure and felt The Power and the Glory "had a pompous title.