Cloak & Dagger

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Davey Osborne is an imaginative youngster who loves role-playing games, and who often enlists the aid of his best friend, an imaginary super-spy named Jack Flack. One day he witnesses a real murder of an FBI agent who passes a videogame called "Cloak & Dagger" to him before he dies. When the police come, the body is gone, and no one will believe him, including his father, Col. Hal Osborne. Soon Davey finds himself up to his neck in hairbreadth escapes, real bullets, and slam-bang action as the hitmen close in. Can Jack save him before time runs out? Cloak & Dagger stars Henry Thomas of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Dabney Coleman in a dual role of Jack and Davey's father, and Michael Murphy.

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Running Time 102 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Who should a kid's hero be? In this underrated adventure-comedy, that's the central issue. Henry Thomas, fresh from E.T., plays a San Antonio kid whose father (Dabney Coleman) doesn't spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses himself in video games--and even has an imaginary friend (also played by Coleman), a super-resourceful secret agent. When he accidentally comes into possession of a spy group's secret plans, and winds up on the run from them, he must learn to rely on himself (and his imaginary pal) to save his skin. But, in the end, Dad proves to be his real hero in this engaging and solid family film. --Marshall Fine

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Oldie But Goodie.......2007-07-02

My child really liked this movie. Action packed older movie that made the movies great back then.

f---ing awesome adventure.......2007-06-19

if u like adventures ...... get - this - movie.

wonderful childhood movie.......2007-05-12

I loved this movie when it was released to video and television. As a fan of the old game, I wanted to see this. I'm just glad its available on DVD so I can share it with my kids instead of the newer movies.

Excellent!.......2007-02-03

Watching this movie was just as enjoyable as an adult as it was when I was a kid - any my 9- and 7-year-old boys enjoyed it, too!!

Cloak & Dagger DVD.......2007-01-30

I order this for my sister as Christmas present. I was really suprised with the speed of the delivery. My sister shared the dvd with a friend, and she absolutely loved it. This movie is great for all ages, my sister is 45 and has loved this movie since was first released. Her friend is in her 70's and she also love it. I will definately order more Dvd's from Amazon.

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Clock & Dagger
A Now-And-Then Interesting Fritz Lang Film, But Not A Very Successful One
This is a race. It's the Germans or us.
Early Bond precursor
A Lesser Lang

Cloak and Dagger
Starring: Gary Cooper , Lilli Palmer , Robert Alda , Vladimir Sokoloff , and J. Edward Bromberg
Director: Fritz Lang
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
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ASIN: B00008RV0H
Release Date: 2003-05-20

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Cloak and Dagger will go down in history as one of the first post-war, atomic power, spy thrillers. Gary Cooper is physics professor Alvah Jesper, sent to Europe on a secret mission to uncover the Nazis' atomic bomb program. The elements are all there for success: the legendary director Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, World War II, spyies, murder, romance, the beautiful Lilli Palmer, and the danger of atomic power in the hands of the Nazis. But somehow it all falls a little flat. Cloak and Dagger is still worth checking out for fans of post-war espionage films and cinephiles interested in the historical pairing of Lang and Cooper. Unfortunately, most will find the film dated and should seek to satisfy their post-war cravings with Carol Reed's The Third Man --Rob Bracco

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From legendary director Fritz Lang comes an engrossing spy thriller years ahead of its time. Gary Cooper is an American scientist, parachuted into war-torn Nazi Germany to obtain military secrets. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes...especially when his involvement with mysterious Lilli Palmer catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal and murder.

Customer Reviews:

Clock & Dagger.......2007-09-10

It was fair. I'm a big Gary Cooper fan, but this wasn't one of his best. It was ok, but after seeing him at his best or his greatest this was alittle disappointing. It didn't really hold my attention that much. I'll share it with someone who likes vintage, but I won't keep it in my library.

A Now-And-Then Interesting Fritz Lang Film, But Not A Very Successful One.......2006-04-13

Let's get the bad news out of the way first. And please note that some elements of the plot are discussed. Fritz Lang while in Hollywood made some movies of such variable quality that, for me, it's hard to get a fix on just how good he was, particularly considering the quality and originality of his German films. Cloak and Dagger is not exactly a failure, but it sets up such an unrealistic premise that the movie itself seems not much more than a left-handed exercise by a right-handed man. For instance, Gary Cooper's character, Professor Alvah Jesper, a physicist at Midwestern University, is recruited by the Office of Strategic Services to go to Switzerland. We meet Jesper in his lab working on an experiment...in a well-cut suit, the coat buttoned and wearing a perfectly knotted tie. With apparently no time for training, we meet him again two days later in Switzerland up to his neck in German spies. Substantial stretches of the movie, particularly in the middle, just seem to dawdle along. While the film features an A list star with Cooper, some of the secondary players don't add much interest. And Cooper, 45 when he made the movie, already had that haggard look around his eyes. He could easily have been 55. It doesn't help that the film's female lead, Lilli Palmer, who was 32, could easily pass for 22.

Still, the movie has some high points. The espionage maneuvering in Switzerland played out in an elegant hotel and a mountain lodge is clever and, in the lodge, violent. Jesper's insertion into Italy from a submarine at night and in wet weather builds tension, as does his meeting with Italian partisans and their trip to Rome, hidden in a truck, through checkpoints. The violent confrontation at a country farmhouse between an aging Italian physicist and his daughter is unexpected. And one hands-on fight to the death between Jesper and a tough Italian undercover cop played by Marc Lawrence in a building entrance next to a restaurant, with street musicians playing and singing, is silent and brutal.

The basic story line goes like this. The OSS knows the Germans are working to build an atom bomb but they don't know how far along the project is. A Hungarian scientist, a brilliant mathematician, has escaped from Germany over the Alps to Switzerland. Jesper, a physicist working on the American bomb, is recruited to go to Switzerland and interview the woman. He speaks German and the two know each other. As things would have it, Jesper determines he must go on to Italy to try to talk an Italian scientist into escaping to America. He meets with a number of Italian partisans who help him, including Gina (Lilli Palmer in her first Hollywood movie), and the partisans' leader, Pinkie (Robert Alda). Tentatively, while Jesper and Gina are hiding out together in Rome, a relationship develops. The end of the movie, after partisans hold off the Germans to allow Jesper and the scientist to escape, sees Jesper pledging to return for Gina after the war, and Gina, eyes misting, watches his plane fly off.

If you're a Lang completist or just enjoy WWII espionage movies, this might be something to add to your collection. The DVD picture is just fine. There are no extras.

This is a race. It's the Germans or us. .......2005-07-27

As the title suggests, CLOAK AND DAGGER (1946) is a spy movie that fictionally depicts the exploits of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), the intelligence arm of the US Army and the precursor of CIA. In this movie director Fritz Lang makes of Gary Cooper a physicist and sends him to Switzerland to find and bring home a foreign scientist who's working on the atom bomb. When that scientist is killed by enemy agents Cooper goes to Italy to extract yet another scientist whose sympathies are with the Allied cause.

There's are some fantastic elements to CLOAK AND DAGGER that made it hard for me to warm up to this movie. Cooper (as Prof. Alvah Jasper) is, we're told, working on the Manhattan Project when the OSS chief picks him because `he'll know what to look for', whatever that means. Maybe it means he can tell the difference between pitchblende and heavy water. You'd think whoever was working on the Manhattan Project was a lot more valuable in the lab than in the field, especially when about all he does, spy-wise, is conduct a friendly kidnapping. Heck, Richard Conte or even John Ireland could do that for you, and at half the price - not that Conte or Ireland are in this one, but this movie doesn't need or add to the luster of a star of Cooper's stature. According to a biography of Lang, CLOAK AND DAGGER was intended to be Lang's warning against atomic research. That would explain why Lang has Prof. Jasper go on and on about the power contained in an apple - why, there's enough energy locked in an apple to blow up this campus! This city, even! C&D was supposed to end with an impassioned anti-atom speech by Jasper which, according to the Lang biography, was filmed and subsequently cut out and destroyed by the releasing company. While in Italian Jasper meets and becomes the charge of pretty young resistance fighter Gina (Lilli Palmer.) Gina might have been able to resist the charms of a Conte or an Ireland, but you don't mix a pretty young with a superstar like Gary Cooper, leave them alone and not expect sparks to fly, embers to glow and flames to erupt. The romantic subplot more or less hijacks half the movie and all the good stuff in the movie happens when Cooper and Palmer are alone. They get the best scenes, including a charming night in a safe house with a forlorn kitten yowling outside the door.

The problem - problems, really - stem from the limp action. Lang handles the foreign agent paranoia stuff well enough. Things ain't what they seem. Carelessly tossed matchboxes or a brace of nuns collecting for the poor can be deadly menaces. There are a couple of well choreographed fight scenes, but the danger never becomes imminent enough and the romance never quite believable enough to work. I think Lang was trying for a lump in the throat when Gina and Jasper share a `We'll always have Paris' scene. That scene leaves one a bit cold, and, as usually happens when such things fail, you resent the director for so blatantly trying to manipulate your emotions. It's probably for the best that the studio loped off the anti-atom ending. One misfire ending is enough for any movie. This one didn't need two of them.

CLOAK AND DAGGER is an okay movie, probably best suited for fans of Gary Cooper or Fritz Lang. I don't know if there are a lot of Lilli Palmer fans out there, but she's the best thing in this one. I'm a big fan of Lang's and I'm slowly completing my collection of his available titles. Lang's deliberate approach to storytelling doesn't bother me much, but this one was a little too slow and diffused even for me. The print is in good condition, the disk contains no extra features.

Early Bond precursor.......2003-09-15

Although eventually slowed down by the romantic subplot, this starkly lit, violent spy movie makes Gary Cooper into a quasi James Bond during its first half. Cooper plays a physicist recruited by the OSS to interview an escaped Nazi scientist in Switzerland. Bond fans will recognize a scene in the Swiss airport that was used nearly shot-for-shot in Dr. No many years later. Cooper seduces a beautiful German spy and in one bar sequence orders, of course, a very dry martini. The movie slows down a bit after he is smuggled into Italy, meeting Lili Palmer (in her first major role), but the occasional presence of Alan Alda's dad Robert, in a rare major role, livens things up, as does the confrontation between Cooper and Marc Lawrence. There is also a terrific gun battle at the end.

The most interesting things about this movie are the two violent fist-fight sequences - wonderfully staged and exceptionally violent for that era - and the paranoid atmosphere of constant danger. As mentioned by others, however, the ending looks way too much like Casablanca.

It is a little weird how Cooper goes from mild-mannered scientist to dashing playboy to martial arts expert all in the space of about two weeks (including cross-Atlantic travel), but, hey ya never know. Great Max Steiner score (which is sort of redundant).

A Lesser Lang.......2001-10-23

Despite a fine cast and first-rate Warner Bros. production values, "Cloak and Dagger" (1946) remains one of director Fritz Lang's lesser efforts. Set during the final months of World War II, this espionage thriller begins promisingly with Gary Cooper as an American physicist sent on a mission to rescue a scientist from his Nazi captors, who have succeeded in developing an atomic bomb. Unfortunately, this intriguing premise runs out of steam at the halfway mark -- weakened by a lengthy romantic subplot. "Cloak and Dagger" would have been more effective if the studio had retained Lang's original ending in which Cooper's character discovers the abandoned location where the Nazis made their atomic bombs. Instead, the film is saddled with a predictable, "Casablanca"-inspired finale. Though "Cloak and Dagger" inevitably falls flat, there are some memorable sequences in the classic Lang tradition.

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HERE'S THE WINDUP
Just When You Think You've Got It Figured Out...
The End is Near

Noir - Cloaks & Daggers (Vol. 6)
Starring: Noir
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ASIN: B0000APVFF
Release Date: 2003-09-16

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HERE'S THE WINDUP.......2004-07-26

In Volume 6 of Noir, we start to finally get some answers to some of the enigmas of the show. Episode 20 explains the origins of the Soldats. It turns out that the organization's founding had nothing to do with what it has become in the present. The Soldats actually formed to right the wrongs against the poor and the weak. In other words, it was a sort of secret society to bring justice to the world. Over the centuries it had basically become a corrupt and Mafia-like organization that has nothing to do with its spiritual origins.

In the second episode, we learn who killed Mireille's parents finally and also the secret past of Kirika. I won't reveal the secrets but let's just say Mireille's and Kirika's relationship will never be the same.

Episode 22 deals with Kirika's journey to confront her fate at "the Manor", the home of the powerful Soldat named Altena, who seems to have been controlling the fate of Noir the whole series. Kirika comes to a mountain village where everyone seems to already know the fate she herself is not aware of.

The last episode on the disk shows Mireille as she strives to make sense of what her next move will be. She is offered an alliance with the Soldats but to seal the deal she might have to hurt someone she cares for. Everything is being set up for a powerful finale on Volume 7, the last of the series.

This was the most powerful volume of Noir I have seen. Of course, the reason is that a lot of the threads of the plot come together in dramatic fashion. There is nothing worse than a revealed past to kill a friendship.

Also, finally Kirika takes a leading role. Usually, she says very few things and seems to be a wandering waif, but here she really is put through the ringer and steps up to some big acting chores. In fact, I began to see the series as a tragedy during this volume. Kirika, Mireille, and Chloe have had their lives destroyed, their youth taken away, and any chance for a normal life claimed by the Soldats when they were children, Before they were old enough to make the right decisions. All because The Soldats believed in the inherent evil of Man. Seeing these characters reap what they didn't sow is heart-rending.

The voice actors are incredible, and also the soundtrack by Yuki Kajiura is first rate. The entire production is epic and majestic. There is a moment in a rainstorm as Mireille runs after Kirika, out of breath, wanting to speak to her after the revelation of a horrible secret, with gentle piano chords in the background, that is as poignant and poweful as anything I've seen on film, whether it be anime or live action. Highly recommended. Beautiful and divine series.

Extras include an interview with the Japanese actress that plays Chloe, Production Sketches, and clean open/closes.

Just When You Think You've Got It Figured Out..........2003-10-14

This set of episodes starts out with a bang (literally) as the focus shifts entirely to the internal politics of the Soldats and the role set aside for Kirika by one of the factions. Altena has been using her position of power to bring about Le Grand Retour, which signals the recreation of a team of assassins know as Noir. One of these is Chloe whose styrange, ambivalent appearances are in contrast to the more 'predictable' relationhip between Kirika and Mirielle. The other of the pair is slated to be Kirika. But there are great forces at play in this drama. As the viewer will quickly become aware, nothing is exactly what it seems.

The stresses of this conflict begins to fray the edges of the bond between Kirika and Mirielle, revealing that their feelings are stronger than earlier appearances. During the series, Kirika has changed from a lost waif to a woman in conflict with her ability to form human contact. As such she has developed a strong reciprocal attachment to Mirielle. While the program has studiously avoided anything that addresses sexuality, a case can be built that Noir is a classic example of Yuri anime. Certainly, Director Koichi Mashimo has left this aspect as ambiguous as possible, creating in interesting dramatic tension.

These episodes are fraught with this kind of layered meaning. On the one hand we see a political struggle for power in an illicit organization. But it also takes the form of a personal purification and initiation ritual where the morbid and menacing take on almost religious tones. Kirika, whose characteristic short skirt suddenly is traded for monastic robes is the incarnation of this conflict - unsure as she is of her true identity until consciousness is forces upon her with a hammer blow. For the viewer, the plot becomes intense and intricate.

It is unusual to describe a story with as much violence as Noir contains as a 'delicate' drama, but the writing and art build a finely grained aesthetic experience which is way out of the ordinary for a series that started out much like any 'girls with guns' story line. Noir has consistently emphasized dramatic values rather than violence, even when the one plays against the background of the other. Noir has consistently pushed the limit of what anime as legitimate theater with a great deal of finesse. Highly recommended.

The End is Near.......2003-09-19

All I can say is, this is by far the best Noir dvd yet. Now for people who haven't seen the series yet, that doesn't signify anything important. But for those of you who have seen the series, you know that its consistent excellence makes it one of the best animes to be released this year.But Cloaks and Daggers takes it up another notch. Its DVD's like this that seperate the good animes from the great ones.
As Kirika's past becomes clearer with each passing incIdent, we are left with a disgrunted Mirielle and a confused Kirika. In the first episode of the disk, the Soldats send their best, the Knights of Paris, in an attempt to finally eliminate Kirika and Mirielle. What happens towards the end of that episode, and carries into the next one, is nothing short of shocking. As Kirika's past finally becomes clear, Mirielle is forced to live up to her promise to kill Kirika. What happens you will just have to see. Chloe is present, as always, and her past becomes clear alongside of Kirika's. We also get more insight into Mirielle's history and the reasons for why her family were killed. After the first episode and a half are done, everything has pretty much gone to hell, and the series begins its spiral to its climax. The next two episodes are classic, especially Journey's End. Whoever has seen Kenshin, then just imagine Kirika going Manslayer. That's the best way I can explain it without ruining it. I have to say, throughout the series Chloe has been my favorite by far, but Kirika is quickly gaining on me. Considering the basic insignificance of Mirielle's skills compared to those two, she may have been forgotten in the mind of some viewers. That would be a mistake, however, as we learn in this DVD that she has just as much potential as the other two.
All in all, undoubtably the best DVD so far, and it should be considering we are winding down to the end of the series. I'm still a little ticked they decided to release the series in 7 volumes instead of 6, but I can't complain too much. If this DVD is any inclination of what we can expect in the final 3 episodes, then we are in for one spectacular ride.

Cloak & Dagger and The Little Vampire - 2 Seperate DVDs- Kids Action & Adventure Set

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Cloak & Dagger and The Little Vampire - 2 Seperate DVDs- Kids Action & Adventure Set

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2 Seperate Kids Action & Adventure DVDs
Cloak & Dagger: Kids Action & Adventure DVD
The Little Vampire:Kids Action & Adventure DVD
3 Interactive Kid-Friendly Games, Hilarious Vampire & Monster Jokes, Easy to make Recipes for Spooky Snacks
DVD-ROM Contents: Original Theatrical Website, Ability to jump from the Script to the Scene in the Movie, Cool Flying Vampire Cow Screensaver!

ASIN: B000Q1AHGK

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Cloak & Dagger and The Little Vampire - 2 Seperate DVDs- Kids Action & Adventure Set DVD 1. Cloak & Dagger:Kids Action & Adventure: Davey Osbourne is an imaginative youngster who loves role-playing games, and who often enlists the help of his best friend, an imaginary super-spy named Jack Flack. One day he witnesses a real murder of an F.B.I.(Federal Bureau of Investigation) agent who passes a videogame called "Cloak & Dagger" to him before he dies. When the police come, the body is gone, and no one will believe him, including his father, Coronel Hal Osbourne. Soon Davey finds himself up to his neck in hairbreath escapes, real bullets, and slam-bang action as the hitmen close in. Can Jack save him before time runs out? STARS: Henry Thomas(E.T. The Extra Terrestrial) as Davey Osbourne , Dabney Coleman (9 to 5), a as both Jack Flack & Davey's Father, & Michael Murphy. Widescreen, Audio: English Dolby 2.0, Color, 102 minutes, Universal Studios, Rated PG. DVD 2. The Little Vampire: Kids Action & Adventure: For Tony Thompson (Jonathan Lipnicki - Stuart Little , Jerry Maguire), third grade really bites. He's in a new school, in a new country, and he's having trouble fitting in. But things change when Tony befriends a young vampire and goes on fang-tastic flying adventures, eluding vampire hunters and driving the countryside of Scotland batty. Written by Larry Wilson (The Addams Family, Beetlejuice) and Karen Kirkpatrick (Chicken Run, James and the Giant Peach), The Little Vampire is a comedy that the whole family can sink their teeth into! 94 minutes, Audio: English Dolby 5.1 or 2.0, Widescreen & Full Screen versions,Rated PG, Universal Studios,FUN FEATURES: 3 Interactive Kid-Friendly Games, Hilarious Vampire & Monster Jokes, Easy to make Recipes for Spooky Snacks, DVD-ROM Contents: Original Theatrical Website, Ability to jump from the Script to the Scene in the Movie, Cool Flying Vampire Cow Screensaver!

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