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Cloak and Dagger / Cape et poignard (1946) [Re-UP]

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Cloak and Dagger / Cape et poignard (1946) [Re-UP]

Cloak and Dagger (1946)
DVD5 | ISO | PAL 4:3 | 01:46:35 | 3,59 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: French
Genre: Romance, Adventure, Thriller

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer

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 quickly onto him, and Lodor dies. Jesper must now get into Italy, go underground with the help of Gina, a resistance leader, and convince Polda, a physicist there, to leave with him. Polda won't go until his daughter is rescued from German detention. As Jesper's pal Pinky works on rescuing Polda's daughter and as time for escape runs down, Jesper and Gina fall in love.


This is another nifty bit of World War II espionage from legendary director Fritz Lang, made just after the war's end, where the looming, very real danger of the atomic bomb lands academic Gary Cooper knee-deep in the middle of the blasted Nazi menace. It's a message film, to be sure, and Lang does manage to wave the peace-loving banner of "the only good science is a free science in the service of humanity" theme around frantically, despite veiled studio pressure that eventually forced an entirely new, more pedantic ending onto the film.

Cloak and Dagger / Cape et poignard (1946) [Re-UP]

Cooper is nuclear physicist Alvah Jesper at the blandly American "Midwestern University," who is summarily recruited into the ranks of the O.S.S. (referred to as the "cloak and dagger boys") in order to determine how far the Nazis have come in perfecting an atomic bomb of their own. The mild-mannered Alvah is whisked off to Switzerland, where he is bounced around like a ping-pong ball between spies, double agents and the faithful Italian underground, and ultimately ends up as part of a mission to get a prominent Italian nuclear physicist named Polda (Vladimir Sokoloff) out of occupied Europe.

Cloak and Dagger / Cape et poignard (1946) [Re-UP]

This is gloriously campy noir-spy stuff from Lang, full of fedoras, shadows, accents and enough cigarette smoke to choke a small army. The required suspension of disbelief to accept how quickly Cooper's almost nerdly pacifistic Alvah becomes a hardened spy, one who can effortlessly impersonate a Germanic scientist without a flub or take part in a brutally heated hand-to-hand fight (set oddly to the music of a roving band of Italian street musicians) is practically negated once he encounters the lovely and sleepy-eyed Gina (Lilli Palmer), a hard-edged courier for the underground resistance.

Cloak and Dagger / Cape et poignard (1946) [Re-UP]

Palmer does the unthinkable by managing to actually steer the limelight away from Cooper, and shine it directly onto herself, full force. We first meet Gina after she and a group of her Italian underground comrades have picked up Cooper's Alvah, and while in the back of a borrowed military truck she brazenly strips down to her slip, all the while cradling a machine gun and looking without a doubt as if she really knows how to use it. Her lack of modesty startles Alvah, as it is apparently supposed to also startle us, and as the relationship between the two slowly develops the many facets of Palmer's character consistently sparkles in every scene. When Gina speaks of having to kiss men without feeling in order to gather information for the underground, it is a moving scene sold by Palmer's heavy-lidded gaze and her tough-gal veneer, one that eventually crumbles as she breaks down in Alvah's arms. Her performance, in a role that could have been trite and frothy (to say nothing of unbelievable) by any of one hundred other actresses of the era, is instead especially touching, even as the modified ending forced upon Lang plays out, mildly toning down the director's staunch anti-war sentiments.

Cloak and Dagger / Cape et poignard (1946) [Re-UP]

This isn't Lang's finest work (see Metropolis or Ministry of Fear), but it is an enjoyably twisty little spy flick anchored by an especially haunted performance by Lilli Palmer, set against the backdrop of war-torn Europe, where apparently everyone was either a spy, a resistance fighter or one of those damn Nazis.

Cloak and Dagger / Cape et poignard (1946) [Re-UP]

A exceptionally solid bit of Hollywood rah-rah about "us" versus "them," wrapped in a layer of Nazi-tinged espionage from one of filmdom's finest directors. The easy everyman appeal of Gary Cooper is wholly upstaged by the tough-edged bravura of Lilli Palmer in practically every scene, and even the tempered climax does little to diminish the subtle message of Cloak and Dagger.
Cloak and Dagger / Cape et poignard (1946) [Re-UP]

"Cloak and Dagger" is certainly one of the better movies of its type for that era. It's exciting as well as entertaining and not as dated as one would imagine. Gary Cooper is excellent as a nuclear physicist who turns smoothly into a secret agent. There is a fair amount of action (mainly good old-fashioned shoot-outs), a rather conventional romance and one superbly executed fight sequence.
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