Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

IslandGuru Who payed the critics

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Leofwine_draca Fritz Lang is the director behind this fun wartime thriller, in which US academic Gary Cooper is sent to Switzerland to track down a nuclear scientist who's been coerced into working for the Germans. His goal is to prevent the Germans and the Italians from getting their hands on the methods to build a nuclear bomb, to which end he must work with the Italian resistance and combat many enemies along the way.This is a lively little picture for the most part, not dissimilar to a Hitchcock film like FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. It's all propaganda of course, but that's no bad thing when you have an assured hand like Lang at the helm. The main thing that prevents CLOAK AND DAGGER from being a classic is a stodgy and extremely dull romantic sub-plot in which Cooper falls in love with one of his allies. This drags the story down in the second half and it only comes to life again for the climax.Still, it is a film worth watching, not least for some truly impressive and ahead of their time fight scenes. Lang shoots these fights in a shockingly brutal way for the 1940s, all below the belt hits and attempts to gouge and murder the rival fighter. They're good enough to stand up with the best of modern cinema, so it's just a shame that the rest of the production couldn't match this type of pace and excitement consistently.

JohnWelles Fritz Lang's "Cloak and Dagger" (1946) isn't so much a Film Noir as a 1940s spy thriller. Only occasionally do the Film Noir elements seep through, such as the beginning when Gestarpo officers kill two French Risistantch and Gary Cooper's fight with another Gestarpo officer. Most of the time however, it is a spy thriller with a good lead, Gary Cooper (who most people think was miscast) and a strong female heroin, Lilli Palmer, whose only other major film appearance was "Operation Crossbow" (1965), is good and so is Robert Alda. It was an unusual choice for Fritz Lang to undertake and you would be hard pushed to gauss it was his work if it wasn't for Film Noir elements already mention. But, its still a worth while to watch, just be prepared for a solid spy film rather than a Film Noir.

Claudio Carvalho Toward the end of World War II, the allied secret service receives a partial message indicating that the Germans are researching nuclear energy to build atomic bombs. In Midwestern University, the scientist Alvah Jesper (Gary Cooper) is called up by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to meet his former colleague Dr. Katerin Lodor (Helen Thimig) in Switzerland and bring her to North America. However, his mission fails and Dr. Lodor is killed by the Nazis but first she informs that Alvah's acquaintance Dr. Giovanni Polda (Vladimir Sokoloff) is working for the Nazis in Italy. Dr. Jesper travels to Italy and with the support of the Italian partisans leaded by Pinkie (Robert Alda) and Gina (Lilli Palmer), he has a meeting with Dr. Polda that is under the surveillance of the Gestapo. The scientist tells him that his daughter Maria had been abducted by the Gestapo and Alvah makes a deal with Dr. Polda, promising to release Maria first and bringing them to North America. While Pinkie travels to rescue Maria, Alvah stays with Gina and they fall in love for each other."Cloak and Dagger" is a suspenseful and full of action romance in times of war. The enjoyable story has good moments of tension but it is only a reasonable work of Fritz Lang. Gary Cooper's character seems to be a skilled and well-trained agent and not a scientist in many moments and Lili Palmer performs a strong female character in one of her first works. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Grande Segredo" ("The Great Secret")

kyrat I'm a fan of both Gary Cooper and Fritz Lang films, and while I don't think this film is either person's greatest work, I did enjoy it.I think it's important to think about the time this was filmed and to think about how close it was to the events at the time, coming mere months after the US had bombed the Japanese.I think it was an important step at the time to make us aware of the dangers of nuclear weapons.I felt the film was careful not to turn into a propaganda piece trying to stir up hatred and fear.I also enjoyed see the "average" (if we all looked like movie stars) people doing what they could to fight the enemy. This wasn't supposed to be a trained James Bond, just someone truly concerned with helping as he could.I think what I liked best about the film is that it actually featured strong female characters. There was a famous and respected female nuclear physicists (in a world where women are STILL discriminated against in the sciences at Ivy League schools)! There was a female spy. There was a schoolteacher turned resistance fighter. There were evil women who killed. Women were just as much a part of everything that went on as anyone else.*Spoiler warning* Without revealing too much, I'd like to say that I also like the ending! I liked seeing that duty was chosen over escape or personal comfort. Coming from a woman (who has probably been socialized that men/love is everything) - that was refreshing to see in a movie! No unrealistically wrapped up happy ending.