Cloak and Dagger (1946) on Netflix
Passed19461h 46mAdventureFilm-NoirRomance
Nuclear physicist Alvah Jesper is recruited by the OSS and flown into neutral Switzerland. He is to make contact with Katerin Lodor, a Hungarian physicist from the German nuclear project.
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Plot summary
In 1944, Alvah Jesper is a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project, the American effort to build a nuclear bomb. The Office of Strategic Services recruits him and flies him into neutral Switzerland to contact the scientists behind the German nuclear program, among them Katerin Lodor, a Hungarian physicist who has escaped there. Jesper finds the country full of German agents. Katerin speaks of an Italian nuclear physicist named Polda, and the OSS lands Jesper in Italy from a British submarine, where a member of the Resistance, Gina, hides him. Polda will work with the Americans only if they first free his daughter Maria from the Germans.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cloak and Dagger (1946)
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- Fritz Lang's planned ending for the film had Gary Cooper's Alvah Jesper leading American paratroopers into Germany to discover an underground factory, the bodies of dead concentration camp workers and evidence it had been making nuclear weapons.
- Screenwriters Lardner and Maltz became two of the Hollywood Ten, accused of adding communist dogma to scripts; the script's suggestion that the US could not keep nuclear secrets from the USSR was among the accusations against them.
- Producer Milton Sperling frequently quarrelled with director Fritz Lang on the set, and thought the film's final scene ridiculous because the audience knew the Germans had no nuclear capacity.
