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Actors: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Sokoloff
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Cloak and Dagger |
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CLOAK AND DAGGER is a Warner production directed by Fritz Lang in 1946.
Gary Cooper, a scientist, is asked by the OSS to help the Allies find out whether the Nazis are producing the atomic bomb. Gary's job is to contact former colleagues who are working now in the Nazi's scientific labs. Helped by the local italian resistance and the beautiful Gina with whom he falls in love, Gary manages to contact Vladimir Sokoloff, an italian physicist whose daughter is held by the Nazis. Sokoloff is ready to give all informations desired if only Cooper saves his daughter.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Cloak and Dagger |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- nukes
Romance
Yes
The terrorist enemy is...
- racists/kkk/nazis
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- fight for survival
Specific kind of enemies?
- right wing dictatorship
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
- Switzerland
- Spain
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- scientific labs
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- amphibious landings
- mission to rescue
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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