Cloak and Dagger (1946)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Fritz Lang

Writers:

Albert Maltz (screenplay) and
Ring Lardner Jr. (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

28 September 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Romance | Adventure | Thriller | War

Tagline:

RELENTLESS SUSPENSE! (original ad - all caps)

Plot:

Toward the end of World War II, the allied secret service receives a partial message indicating that...

Plot Keywords:

Italy | Switzerland | Oss | Scientist | Resistance

Cast

Gary Cooper	...	Prof. Alvah Jesper
Lilli Palmer	...	Gina
Robert Alda	...	Pinkie
Vladimir Sokoloff	...	Giovanni Polda
J. Edward Bromberg	...	Trenk
Marjorie Hoshelle	...	Ann Dawson
Ludwig Stössel	...	The German (as Ludwig Stossel)
Helen Thimig	...	Dr. Katerin Lodor
Dan Seymour	...	Marsoli
Marc Lawrence	...	Luigi
James Flavin	...	Col. Walsh
Patrick O'Moore	...	The Englishman (as Pat O'Moore)
Charles Marsh	...	Erich
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Burke	...	OSS Agent (scenes deleted)
Robert Coote	...	Cronin (scenes deleted)
Vernon Downing	...	British Sergeant (scenes deleted)
Ross Ford	...	Paratrooper (scenes deleted)
Holmes Herbert	...	British Officer (scenes deleted)
Clifton Young	...	American Commander (scenes deleted)

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German | Italian

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #11630) | UK:PG | West Germany:12 (f) | Finland:K-16

Company:

United States Pictures

Trivia:

Dan Seymour became friends with director Fritz Langon the set of the movie after Lang discovered he spoke German. Seymour maintained a life-long friendship with Lang and became the executor of Lang's estate.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Top Secret! (1984)

Soundtrack:

Gschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), Op. 325

An Exciting World War II Spy Movie

Mike Burke eventually ran Ringling Brothers and then the New York Yankees. He eventually moved to his beloved Ireland where he died as I recall. Whether or not his character was in some way a model for Charlton Heston in "The Greatest Show on Earth" I know not, but he WAS the advisor for this film having been an OSS secret agent during World War Two, and this is supposedly based on his experiences. He is mentioned in the credits. Gary Cooper is his usual fine self as a professor recruited to infiltrate Europe and convince a nuclear physicist friend to defect. His adventures are a little hard to take for a mere professor but with Cooper it always works. NOTE: Marc Lawrence is fabulous as the Ovra (Italian Gestapo) agent Luigi. The hand to hand fight he has with Cooper is one of the best, most vicious, and most realistic ever filmed. It's too bad Lawrence got blacklisted during the Fifties. But catch this movie when you can.