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Jim P Nov 26 I bet there was a lot of spying during wars. Secret agents, doubles, special missions... Intriguing movie. See more Gordon C 11/10/2024 This was a fascinating movie with a lot more to it than might first be thought. Set in the days before D Day, the story told of a Spy training school in the USA that was known interestingly as 077. The plot surrounds the group of trainee agents and included in their number was a German spy, played by Conte. Cagney and his superior were aware of who the spy was but had developed a plan to deliberately feed him false information intended to have the German's belive that the coming invasion of Europe would be made via the flatlands of Holland. The whole cast played their parts well,and having spent 15 years researching this specific time period, I would say that it was a very believable story. The attention to detail was amazing, right down to the 'BURN' notice in the radio operators room and the use of British officers in the training of US agents, very true. It was dramatic and engaging to watch. In the opening line to this review, I referred to their being more to the film than meets the eye and here's the reason. According to Leo Marks, author of Between Silk and Cyaniade and one time code man at British SOE in Baker Street London, there were concerns that some radio operators were missing the 'deliberate' mistakes made in messages by radio operators in Holland. While it was reported a number of times nothing was done about it. As a consequence SOE lost many of its agents in Holland, a coincidence perhaps or was another game being played? In short, a great move, believable factual and it left me wondering,. See more 02/14/2022 Like other movies that I haven't watched in 40 years this is a very dated film. Of course I can watch Public Enemy or Roaring Twenties anytime. See more 11/15/2018 One of the few war stories from that era that remains entertaining today See more 12/06/2016 Little intrigue and no shades of grey on display in this by-the-numbers propaganda piece. Much of the film looks like a government infomercial. Still, early incarnations of war /spy films tropes like the training school pre-mission are notable. And Jimmy C is always worth the admission fee See more 10/01/2016 This is one of James Cagney's overlooked films, one that most seem to have forgotten about, but his performance is very good, and his career was beginning to peak at this stage. In this Second World War drama, directed by Henry Hathaway, Cagney plays a tough OSS agent, who oversees a special mission to determine the location of the factory where the Nazis are manufacturing their flying bombs. Cagney is solidly supported by Annabella and Richard Conte, and the movie is also good by the fact that it is told in a documentary style, meaning something is bound to be learnt when the credits have finished. Overall, this is one of the forgotten gems by Cagney and director Hathaway, and is a good war movie to view. See more Read all reviews

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