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13 Rue Madeleine

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Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1947-01-15

Runtime: 95 mins

Director: Henry Hathaway

Spoken language: Français, English

Genres: Thriller, War

Original title: 13 Rue Madeleine

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey

James Cagney

Suzanne de Beaumont

Annabella

William H. 'Bill' O'Connell

Richard Conte

Frank Latimore

Walter Abel

Melville Cooper

Sam Jaffe

Jump Master (uncredited)

Karl Malden

Peasant Woman (uncredited)

Judith Lowry

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Reed Hadley

Gestapo Officer (uncredited)

Dick Wessel

Psychiatrist (scenes deleted)

Dick Gordon

German Officer (uncredited)

Julius Cramer

Reviews

Geronimo1967

James Cagney leads quite an efficient cast in this superior WWII espionage thriller. He heads a special outfit (077 not 007) charged with helping the resistance. The curious thing is that he, and the audience, know that he has a spy in the midst of his team - and we all now exactly whom that person is. What follows is a cleverly constructed cat and mouse game as they try to play him in order to find out how he communicates his treason and to whom. Cagney stands out, but Annabella ("Madame de Beaumont") and both Richard Conte ("O'Connell") and Frank Latimore ("Lassister") work well too, to keep the suspense running well for much of this 90 minute adventure. The story has plenty of action, only a modicum of romance to clutter up the drama and it delivers a strong sense of just how perilous the lives of these fighters, and their counter-espionage colleagues, actually was in the occupied territories. It does take a while to build up steam, and I could have been doing without the rather oppressively dramatic narrative from rent-a-voice Reed Hadley but this is certainly well worth a watch.

2022-07-07

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