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
Movie Reviews of 13 Rue Madeleine
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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.
Summary 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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