Review – 13 Rue Madeleine

Though put together after the war ended, this 1946 production is pure wartime propaganda. James Cagney is the valiant OSS (oops, make that 077) operative who goes after a Nazi double-agent in order to protect D-Day secrets and locate V2 launch sites. The picture is fun in a pre-Cold-War espionage story sort of way, though the drama and the dialogue are a bit too broad (in keeping with the era). Mildly amusing