13 Rue Madeleine
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Movie Reviews of 13 Rue Madeleine
Movie Review: Not So Classic Cagney, But Still a Great One
Summary: 5 Stars
I ahven't seen this movie in many years, and forgot how good it was. Blu-Ray helped, but it must be an old master. I'm still glad I have added it to my collectionMovie Review: 13 Rue Madeline
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good James Cagney film and also a historical event in WWII. Very interesting performances by all the cast. Well worth purchasing.Movie Review: The past is prologue
Summary: 4 Stars
We're in the middle of the Second World War, the Allies have decided on the location where they'll launch their massive invasion of Europe, and spies are battling spies to hide and discover the facts. Thank goodness we have Jimmy Cagney on our side.
Cagney plays the rough-and-tumble spy Bob Sharkey in Henry Hathaway's 13 RUE MADELEINE (1947), one of a number of motion pictures released shortly after the war that celebrated the exploits of America's nascent espionage organization, the OSS (Office of Strategic Services.) Although the movie ends in an exciting, if somewhat abrupt, scene behind enemy lines, a great deal of this movie takes place in what can probably best be described as a spy school. The movie begins with a rather extended montage of stock documentary film of London during wartime before gradually, and neatly, folding it into the movie proper. The first half of the movie concerns itself with the acceptance of a number of highly qualified candidates (including Annabella, Richard Conte and Frank Latimore), the rigorous training they undergo (Is that the brake of a train or a steam kettle you hear on the phonograph record?) and the discovery of a mole. A mole whom, of course, they leave in place so that the enemy can be fed disinformation and, hopefully, lead the good guys to the bad guys and their cache of rocket bombs in the Low Countries. Ah, spy movies! Especially spy movies where our spies are better than their spies.
As usual Cagney is convincing as the spy trainer who eventually is forced to take the field, and 13 RUE MADELEINE'S semi-documentary treatment works well. Hathaway takes enough of a gritty realist approach to make this one believable, even if his presentation of the infallibility of Cagney the Spy stretches credibility. The film is in good condition, and old film fans should look quick for Karl Malden and E.G. Marshall in bit roles.
Movie 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
Movie Review: 13 Rue Madeleine
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great James Cagney film. Many people should review this film and study its content. Mr. Cagney was a great actor, I would say a Reagon Conservative. The film typifies what this country of the U.S. should do in keeping certain intelligence programs secret instead of low ranking Government people working for these intelligence agencies blabing to the New York Times and other Left-Wing newspapers what this country is up to. This would not not have happened during World War 2.I remember when I was a Security Consultant at the Marine Maritime Institute in Baltimore, Md. there wasone slogan that indicated our need for the U.S. government employees to keep their mouths shut and that slogan is "Loose Lips Sink Ships". That is what this film is about and what the O.S.S. was all about. The U.S. is at war with Terrorism . We can win only if we keep our mouths shut.