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An unconvincing cloak and a rather blunt dagger , 14 April 2011
  • Cloak and Dagger
  • Cloak and Dagger on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Lilli Palmer,  Robert Alda
    Director: Fritz Lang
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    There is a certain fascination in watching Gary Cooper playing an academic physicist and amateur spy, about as intriguing as finding Hugh Grant, as The Man With No Name, but with accent intact, turning up in a remake of A Fistful of Dollars. There is the pleasure of looking at Lilli Palmer: her beauty lights up the screen in every scene in which she appears. There are obtrusively clever directorial touches: scenes of interiors with one of the participating characters appearing reflected in conveniently placed mirrors. The film is well-intentioned but to modern eyes, the implausibility of action, and especially the implausibility of the love-interest between Palmer and Cooper, render parts of the film ridiculous to the point of risibility. It is amusing to see Cooper playing against type, in disguise as a German professor from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut, dressed in wing-collar and Homburg hat. Like this review, the film is bits and pieces that do not cohere into a continuous narrative: it is worth watching as a period piece, and as a record of the dramatic conventions of the Hollywood cinema of the late 40s of the last century, and it ends with a reverse of the Casablanca ending: it's the hero who flies away, leaving the heroine behind.   0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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