13 Rue Madeleine
by Henry Hathaway
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Actor: Annabella, Frank Latimore, James Cagney, Richard Conte, Walter AbelDirector: Henry Hathaway
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of 13 Rue Madeleine
DVD Review: Dated
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie served its purpose for the immediate post-war period. It pays tribute to our intelligence services during WWII. It is not, however, a great movie. Nor are there any great performances.
It does not provide a lot of suspense or action. It does not provide any great insights into WWII intelligence gathering or operations. The first part of the movie is a government primer on how thoroughly the intelligence agents are trained. The announcer's dramatic voice-over throughout the movie is intended to lend authenticity to the tale.
Cagney gives a credible low-key performance by subordinating his normally feisty character portrayal to the low-key script he was handed. The dangerous German counterspy who infiltrates the intelligence operation is revealed early in the movie. After that it is a story of sacrifice and duty to country. Worth seeing, but not worth buying.
DVD Review: Still a good movie
Summary: 3 Stars
Mr. Cagney is still as good today as he was 60 years ago. I saw this movie back in the 50/s and it is still worth the time and money.DVD Review: "Thrilling BS From the OSS"
Summary: 4 Stars
I first saw this movie at The Colonial Theatre in Port Arthur Canada when I was about 9 years old - and being a young and impressionable James Cagney fan, I was enthralled and excited!
Upon reading the recent history of the CIA by James Weiner - "The Legacy of Ashes" - I was fascinated by the revelations of the early blunders of the OSS and its leader "Wild Bill" Donovan! Apparently, he was aptly named. One of his favorite "spy-tricks" was to parachute allied agents behind Nazi lines - usually ill-prepared and untrained and , to a person, never to be heard from again!
The OSS was the WW2 predecessor of the CIA and this very same tactic was continued with the same dismal results!
However, "13 Rue Madelaine" is an excellent and exciting movie with a thrilling if not costly ending. As a young boy on through manhood I never forgot Cagney's manaical and triumphant laughter as the allied bombers demolished the Gestapo Headquarters at 13 Rue Madeleine before the Nazi brutes could torture the secrets from our heroic James Cagney!
An excellent older movie; well-directed: for more comments, please see my blog devoted to movies www.Report From Cannes,com
DVD Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
Love Jimmy Cagney and B/W movies, but this one felt a little flat.
I won't divulge any spoilers, but the title is misleading... it only makes sense in the final few moments of the movie. This isn't about an address in wartime Paris, it's about an organization created to respond to a threat and an just such a threat coming to fruition and the alied response.
DVD Review: O.S.S.------ Early American Intelligence.......
Summary: 5 Stars
Cagney brings to the screen early American Intelligence sorely needed by 1944....the British Secret Service and German Gestapo were masters of this undercover intel long before WW2 even started...I was impressed with Jimmy Cagney and Walter Abel in their roles; plus, the contributions of Frank Latimore; and of course, the beautiful French actress, Anabella...all in all a movie that keeps your attention throughout...Richard Conte was convincing in the role of a Nazi counter-spy...theater/goers of the time got their monies worth as well as you DVD buffs...the OSS was the brainchild of Col.[Wild Bill] Donovan of WW1 fame with the Fighting 69th NYC Regiment, realizing in the post/war years fast approaching the United States need for a world-wide surveillance and undercover network...13 Rue Madeleine was the harbinger for what you see now as the CIA and this Cagney flick puts it before the masses of the United States populace in 1947...it ranks up there as a darn good WW2 thriller....Semper Fi, SSGT CHRIS SARNO-USMC FMF
Description of 13 Rue Madeleine
A group of allied agents working undercover in occupied Paris struggle to infiltrate German files in order to discover the location of a rocket launching site before the D-Day invasion. However, in their midst a traitor lurks.A neat World War II thriller, 13 Rue Madeleine benefits from the postwar craze for shooting outside the studio. With Quebec doubling for occupied France, this is a spy movie with a sense of open air. James Cagney plays an OSS agent, training his recruits for an important pre-D-Day mission. When one of them turns out to be a Nazi spy, Cagney must parachute into France himself and straighten things out. Director Henry Hathaway and producer Louis de Rochemont pioneered the docu-drama approach with The House on 92nd Street, and they again use newsreel footage and stentorian narrator here, blended into the fictional story. The script is slightly muddled, but there are a fistful of suspenseful situations and a gangbusters ending--as well as the typically wired-up Cagney, who is exactly the guy you want on your side if D-Day is hanging in the balance. --Robert Horton
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