Cloak & Dagger (1984) on Netflix
PG19841h 41m
Eleven-year-old Davey Osborne plays the Cloak & Dagger spy game and dreams of its hero, Jack Flack. After he witnesses a murder, a cartridge holding military secrets lands in his hands.
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Plot summary
Davey Osborne is an 11-year-old boy in San Antonio whose father, Hal, works as a military air traffic controller and has trouble relating to him since the death of Davey's mother. Davey fills his free time with the Cloak & Dagger espionage game, and he imagines Jack Flack, its hero, as a dashing version of Hal; he carries a water pistol and a softball for his spy games. His friend Kim Gardener lives nearby. Morris runs a game shop, and he asks Davey and Kim to run an errand, during which Davey sees a man murdered. As the man dies he presses a Cloak & Dagger cartridge into Davey's hands, saying it holds military secrets that must reach the FBI. The authorities treat his story as make-believe.
Cast
- Shelby Leveringtonas Marilyn Gardener
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cloak & Dagger (1984)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film was written specifically for Henry Thomas as a follow-up to his success in E.T. Universal felt it was key to use Thomas's exceptional talent while he was young.
- Filming took place in San Antonio, Texas, chosen because it was Henry Thomas's hometown. The Alamo's exterior was filmed on location, but the filmmakers were not allowed inside, so they recreated the interior.
- In the film, Davey plays an Atari 5200 version of Cloak & Dagger, but no at-home version existed before 2022. The illusion was achieved by outputting the arcade game's signal into a television set.
- Dabney Coleman said that two or three times a year people come up to him about the film, usually a father who saw it with his son or a son who saw it with his dad, and tell him it was very important in their lives.
- The arcade game was under development with the title Agent X when the film's producers and Atari learned of each other's projects and decided to cooperate, tying the game to the movie.
