Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

kenjha This WW2 espionage yarn gets off to a slow start but picks up steam after the action shifts to Italy and Palmer enters the picture as Cooper's love interest. Cooper acts with his usual awkwardness but in this case his uneasiness is well suited to the role of a scientist out of his element. As an Italian resistance fighter, Palmer gives a wonderfully natural performance. Although the opening credits oddly indicate that this is her film debut, she had been acting for a decade. The best parts of the film are her scenes with Cooper. The fight scene between Cooper and Lawrence is reminiscent of Hitchcock. Lang made this at the time when he was at the peak of his creative powers.

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.

Marlburian This is a disappointing film, with two high spots: the fight Cooper has with the Ovra agent, and Lilli Palmer. (Despite the opening credits state "Introducing Lilli Palmer", she had been appearing in films since 1935.)She's great to look at, and is pretty good at negotiating rough ground (such as the four miles to the aeroplane) in high heels.I don't always rate Cooper as an actor (though he was great in "High Noon"), and he's bit old for such spy capers, but his range of facial expressions when he's told to lie low with Lilli is worth replaying several times. But then the film slows right down for a bit of romance and soul-bearing by Lilli, until the action picks up again.Incidentally I can just about accept that Cooper might have been allowed to go to neutral Switzerland, though surely with a minder or two. But anyone with knowledge of the Manhattan project (applied in a very basic laboratory, as we see at the beginning) would not not have been permitted to risk himself in Italy, especially after he had been detected by German agents in Switzerland.It's nice to see the RAF get a look in at the end, when it's one of its planes that lands in Italy. Subsequent American film-makers would probably have made it an USAF plane.

JD Ralston If you cut this movie in half it would be tolerable. Gary Pooper is awkward and painful to watch. The middle section of the movie when Cooper and Palmer are hiding out in France has a slight "Casablanca" feel. It's the only part of the movie that didn't make me want to smack someone. Palmer is the poor man's Bergman and I won't even mention that Pooper guy in the same sentence with Bogart. Yuck what a waste of time. Fritz Lang directed this tripe? This is the same guy who gave us M and Metropolis? It was made by United States Pictures and the best I can figure is that it was a propaganda attempt. Cooper was just awful but the story and writing didn't help any of the other actors either. The writing is so bad it's embarrassing. If this was Coopers only movie I would link him with Dan Duryea as the bottom of the barrel in black and white pictures. I watched this because I thought it was a noir picture. It is not. I would call it film no. As in no don't watch it.