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Cloak and Dagger

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Italian partisans (Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda) help a professor (Gary Cooper) sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

Critics Reviews

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 01/24/2020
5/5
There are some nifty thriller tropes, including a high-tech camera pen and a sexy Nazi agent played by Marjorie Hoshelle, but the film finds its heart in the delicately played romance between Jesper and a traumatised resistance fighter, Gina. Go to Full Review
Harry MacArthur Washington Star 09/04/2019
Cloak and Dagger has its sharp, melodramatic moments high with excitement and its sequences so taut with suspense that the more susceptible types will be suffering from shattered nerves before the thing is done. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 04/03/2013
B
Old-fashioned espionage tale. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 09/14/2012
B+
Starring Gary Cooper and Lili Plamer, Fritz Lang's WWII melodrama is one of the first Hollywood pictures to deal with the global threats of the atomic bomb. Go to Full Review
Fernando F. Croce CinePassion 11/16/2009
The ugly ruthlessness on both sides of the conflict attests to Lang's pragmatic refusal to pit simple "good" versus "evil" Go to Full Review
Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television 07/18/2009
Minor spy thriller has some good touches from the great Fritz Lang. Go to Full Review
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nick s 04/23/2024 Great acting and awesome sets. Fritz does a great job of each scene. But for a long stretch it lacks tension and becomes humdrum. The shoehorned romance was a bit on the nose and too much of a distraction from the plot. See more Steve D 01/07/2024 Nothing special but entertaining. See more ed m 12/02/2022 Good, tense spy thriller. See more SICKS6SIX 07/27/2022 A good film for a winter's afternoon. Apparently the ending is not what was first filmed the last reel was lost so a quick remake was made with a different ending to the original. Good performances from cooper and his Co star. See more paul d @PaulusLoZebra 02/19/2022 Fritz Lang didn't have enough magic to save Cloak and Dagger. What was under his control, the cinematography, was the best part of the film. But it was too long, and the script and dialogue uninspiring. Gary Cooper plays Gary Cooper, and he isn't very convincing in this role. Lilli Palmer was much better, and brought life to her scenes, but she wasn't enough to transform this ponderous dud. The music was also demerit, with martial music intruding in odd places. See more 12/07/2020 A well-realised script that pulls few punches, it neither lets the actors down nor patronises its audience. Cooper is always a pleasure to watch. But Lili Palmer's portrayal of how damaging wartime is to the human soul is painfully believable - it's through her performance that you can intuit the innocence, gaiety and warmth of her past. This to me is her film and very worthwhile. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Italian partisans (Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda) help a professor (Gary Cooper) sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.
Director
Fritz Lang
Producer
Milton Sperling
Screenwriter
Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr.
Distributor
Warner Bros.
Production Co
Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 28, 1946, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
May 22, 2017
Runtime
1h 46m