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...Madeleine (20th Century-Fox) is the third spy thriller to be culled from the wartime hush-hush files of the Office of Strategic Services. This one bests both its predecessors (Paramount's O.S.S., Warner's Cloak & Dagger) by a wide margin. In fact, it is as good, nerve-racking fun as any spy chase since The House on 92nd Street, which was worked on by the same competent team (Producer Louis de Rochemont, Director Henry Hathaway, Writer John Monks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...takes his cloak and we walked together down till we came pretty near home, when I saw my mother in the street with another woman. . . . My mother, spying of us, says to the other woman, 'Here come Master Debase with a Fleming. It may be they may bring some news of Ned, she little knowing I was he. The old man bid me say nothing, he being pleased at the conceit [joke]. When we came to my mother, she looked on me, but knew me not, but asked the old man if he could tell no news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Log Book | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...drastic) and "jump the Line" on Browder. Through this period the Editor of the Daily Worker may have been near to getting the goods, but from the standpoint of documentary evidence, he still has to prove that he was not extremely far. It is difficult to swallow cloak-and-dagger melodrama in a land of milk and honey

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Budenz Sees Red on Communists, Parries Query on Faculty's Tinge | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...with a Tumor. Last week the anguished Dr. Fiderkiewicz let out the whole cloak & dagger story. Where were the treasures? The Minister was sure he knew. Said he darkly: "The only man who had a tumor on his ear and also knew the password is Polkowski. I wrote Polkowski asking what he had done with the art. He replied that he had given his word of honor not to reveal its location." Who was the man at Ste. Anne's? "Babinski," said Dr. Fido. ". . . It is all Babinski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Affair of the Absconded Art | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Sleep (Warner) and Cloak and Dagger (Warner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Still Terrific | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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