Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger (1946)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (1,902 ratings)

Inspired by actual events, Cloak and Dagger was first major "atomic power" melodrama of the postwar era. Gary Cooper stars as bookish physics professor Alvah Jesper, a character obviously based on A-bomb codeveloper J. Robert Oppenheimer. Pressed into service by the OSS in the last months of WW2,… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 46 min.
Directed By
Fritz Lang
Written By
Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
In Theaters
Sep 28, 1946 Wide
On DVD
May 20, 2003

Critic Reviews

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    The ugly ruthlessness on both sides of the conflict attests to Lang's pragmatic refusal to pit simple "good" versus "evil"

  • Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television

    Minor spy thriller has some good touches from the great Fritz Lang.

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    Much longer and less focused that You Only Live Once, it's still a vintage Lang picture and worth seeing.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    A confusing, at times very boring, but at other times pretty good spy movie from the forties.

  • xGary X


    Alfred Hitchcock was not the only great director to make anti-Nazi porpaganda films. Fritz Lang, himself an escapee from Nazi Germany, made this film to warn of the dangers of atomic power in the hands of fascists. It's essentially a spy film as it follows scientist Gary Cooper… More

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