The Man with a Cloak

The Man with a Cloak (1951)

  • 42% of users liked it
    (77 ratings)

Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 21 min.
Directed By
Fletcher Markle
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Sep 8, 1952 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    An unconvincing pretentious melodrama that is filled with literary allusions and veers between being a suspense thriller and a character study.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    Decent little mystery with Barbara giving her usual competent performance, she shouldn't have sung though. Otherwise an enjoyable view.

  • Stella D


    pretty disappointing considering it stars two of my favorite actors, stanwyck and cotten. it's a victorian mystery full of stilted dialogue and without much suspense. the 'mysterious stranger' isn't very mysterious or very strange. what happened here? put it… More

  • Lanning :


    Purple prose. One of my all-time favorite English profs, when we would discuss elements of style for a particular author, would absolutely glow when he'd read us a passage where the writing suddenly erupted into a kind of decorous effulgent glob. He'd always say something… More

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