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Cloak and Dagger is a 1946 American spy film directed by Fritz Lang which stars Gary Cooper as an American scientist sent by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to contact European scientists working on the German nuclear weapons program and Lilli Palmer as a member of the Italian resistance movement who shelters and guides him.
Cloak and Dagger: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer, Vladimir Sokoloff. In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
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- Adventure, Film-Noir, Romance
- Fritz Lang
- 1946-09-28
Cloak and Dagger (1946) - Film Noir. Classic Film Noir exposes the myths by which we fulfil our desires — sex — murder — and the family unit. Cloak and Dagger (1946) is a Nazi nuclear secrets behind enemy lines espionage thriller made partially in the film noir style by Fritz Lang, starring Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Inspired by actual events, Cloak and Dagger was first major "atomic power" melodrama of the postwar era. Gary Cooper stars as bookish physics professor Alvah Jesper, a character obviously based on A-bomb codeveloper J. Robert Oppenheimer.
The fourth and final of Fritz Lang's anti-Nazi WW2 thrillers is this film. Cloak and Dagger is a noir enthused espionage thriller, focusing on the OSS attempt to rescue a nuclear scientist in order to keep him out of the hands of the Nazis.
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- Warner Bros. Pictures, United States Pictures
- Fritz Lang
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May 3, 2011 · Cloak and Dagger 1946, directed by Fritz Lang | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Tolerably exciting, but despite some electric moments (the shockingly casual execution of Thimig, a...
Near the end of World War II, the Allies must find out how much the Axis knows about building atomic bombs. The OSS recruits a physicist, Alvah Jesper, to reach his former colleague, Katerin Lodor, now in Switzerland, and bring her out for debriefing. He reaches her, but a German agent is...
