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Bookmark this pageCloak and Dagger (1946)
Director: Fritz Lang
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Tolerably exciting, but despite some electric moments (the shockingly casual execution of Thimig, a brutal fight in an alley conducted in death like silence), a conventional World War II espionage thriller and far from Lang at his best. Cooper, morosely miscast as a scientist serving with the OSS, spends most of the time trotting round Europe ensuring that the Nazis don't get the atom bomb and that he gets the girl. The version shot by Lang was considerably more doom-laden, carrying on in a lengthy coda to suggest that Nazi scientists had found the secret of atomic power, and escaped with it to Argentina or parts unknown. Then Warners got into the act, and cut for the happy ending.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Fritz Lang
Producer: Milton Sperling
Cast: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Sokoloff, Helene Thimig, J Edward Bromberg full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 106 mins
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