Cloak and Dagger

Pros: Direction, Cinematography, Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Marc Lawrence
Cons: A little slow in the second half

Just after WWII, the studios rushed to be first to release films about the super secret OSS (Office of Strategic Services) the prototype for Britain’s MI6 and USA’s CIA. OSS starring Alan Ladd and 13 Rue ...

Pros: Palmer
Cons: dialogue

Walter Huston reputedly said, "I ain't paid to make good lines sounds good; I'm paid to make bad lines sound good." Although Gary Cooper managed to hold his own in a movie based on a repartee-heavy Nöel Coward play (Private Lives) during the early 1930s, ...

Pros: well-done espinoage thriller from Fritz Lang
Cons: just a little too much flag-waving

Based largely on Cloak and Dagger. The Secret Story of OSS. by Corey Ford, and Alastair MacBain, this Gary Cooper vehicle, directed by Fritz Lang, still excites today.During the last years of World War 2 the United States gets wind that the ...