Word: rochemont
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...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...
Producer de Rochemont, who made the first MARCH OF TIME (1934) and produced that series for almost a decade, uses his know-how as a documentary-maker to put realistic punch into his entertainment. Rue Madeleine begins with well-chosen scraps of newsreel, a commentator's voice, recognizable glimpses of actual Washington streets and buildings. By the time they are introduced, the actors (James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte. Frank Latimore) have already half won their make-believe battle. Concentrating on the fascinating business of learning how to be a spy, the movie wisely ignores phony romantic trimmings...
When Producer Louis de Rochemont, a veteran of 22 years of newsreel and documentary photography (THE MARCH OF TIME), set out late last year to make a movie about his favorite subject, the FBI -which he fondly regards with all the hero worship of a small boy-he plunked his idea right on Director Hoover's desk. For their story, De Rochemont and Writer John Monks Jr. pored over scores of FBI case histories and pieced together a selection of the Bureau's better experiences...
...Rochemont-Hathaway-Monks approach to a purely fictional drama somehow suggests that the people on the screen are real and just happen to have been caught by a fortuitous camera. Actually, some of the film's G-men are the real McCoy. The picture serves up, as an added fillip, real FBI shots of pre-Pearl Harbor traffic in & out of the German Embassy...
...just two years later MARCH OF TIME won Hollywood's coveted "Oscar" for "revolutionizing the newsreel." The MARCH OF TIME has been developing constantly since those early films, and today it requires a staff of close to 100 specially-trained technicians. Head man is Producer Richard de Rochemont, who headed its operations in Europe for nine years and covered the early battles of the war firsthand for TIME & LIFE. His seven camera crews have been to the ends of the earth to record the great and the near-great of our times, and their adventures would fill a column...