13 Rue Madeleine (1947) On DVD

Actor:           James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel                                                                                                                      
Director:      Henry Hathaway
Genre:          Drama
Year:            1947
Studio:          Fox Home Entertainment
Length:         95
Released:    May 20, 2003
Rating:          Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:         DVD
Misc:              NTSC, Black & White
Language:    English, Spanish
Subtitles  :    French, Spanish

DESCRIPTION:

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.

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