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13 Rue Madeleine
13 Rue Madeleine is a 1947 American World War II spy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte and Frank Latimore. Allied volunteers are trained as spies in the leadup to the invasion of Europe, but one of them is a German double agent.
Bob Sharkey is given charge of a group of American espionage candidates. However, he is informed by his boss Charles Gibson that one of his students is a German Abwehr agent. He accepts the challenge of identifying him. He correctly chooses the student, who is using the alias of Bill O'Connell. Gibson reveals that O'Connell is actually Wilhelm Kuncel, one of Germany's top spies. His mission is to determine the date and location of the Allied invasion of Europe. They assign O'Connell a job in London that gives him full access to false information about "Plan B", the invasion of Germany through the lowlands, hoping that he will pass on the misleading information to his superiors.
At the end of their training, three of the new agents—Frenchwoman Suzanne de Beaumont, American Jeff Lassiter and Kuncel—are sent to Britain, where they prepare to fly into German-occupied territory. O'Connell / Kuncel is given a mission in Holland, supposedly because of his familiarity with the region. Lassiter is assigned to kidnap the French collaborator Duclois and bring him to England; Duclois designed and built the main assembly and supply depot for V-2 rockets that will be used against the key Allied invasion port of Southampton, and what he knows would be vital for achieving its destruction. De Beaumont goes along as Lassiter's radio operator. Sharkey tells Lassiter about O'Connell / Kuncel and orders him to kill Kuncel if he suspects that Kuncel has not been deceived. However, on the airplane, Lassiter cannot conceal his uneasiness from Kuncel, who realizes Lassiter suspects him and sabotages Lassiter's parachute, causing him to fall to his death. Gibson and Sharkey conclude that Kuncel now knows that the information that he was given is false.
With no time to brief another agent, Sharkey volunteers to take Lassiter's place. Gibson is reluctant to do so, as Sharkey knows the true date and location of the invasion, but finally agrees. With the help of the local French resistance led by the town's mayor, Sharkey takes Duclois prisoner. However, in stopping Kuncel from interfering with the airplane departing with Duclois, Sharkey is captured. De Beaumont is killed while transmitting the news to England. Kuncel takes Sharkey to Gestapo headquarters at 13 Rue Madeleine in Le Havre and supervises his torture when Sharkey refuses to talk. Back in Britain, Gibson has no choice but to order a bombing raid to destroy the building before Sharkey cracks. When the bombing starts, Sharkey laughs in triumph in Kuncel's face.
Prohibited from mentioning the OSS in films during the war, several Hollywood studios produced films about the agency after the war, such as O.S.S. (Paramount), Cloak and Dagger (Warner Bros./United States Pictures) and Notorious (RKO), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Although 13 Rue Madeleine was originally written to showcase the O.S.S., with Cagney playing a character based on William Donovan and featuring Peter Ortiz as a technical advisor, Donovan raised major objections to the film, including the idea that his agency had been infiltrated by an enemy agent. The spy group was renamed "O77" and Cagney's character had no similarities to Donovan.
The film followed Fox's The House on 92nd Street, a true story of FBI counterespionage, which shared the same director, producer and one of the writers.
Later parts of the filming took place in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada[citation needed] while the earlier parts were filmed at Boston College, USA.
The Breen Office objected to the Americans bombing a building solely to kill Sharkey. However, Sy Bartlett, one of the film's scriptwriters, had served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and claimed that such an incident did indeed take place, although in a different context. According to director Henry Hathaway, that incident was the basis for the film's final scene.
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13 Rue Madeleine
13 Rue Madeleine is a 1947 American World War II spy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte and Frank Latimore. Allied volunteers are trained as spies in the leadup to the invasion of Europe, but one of them is a German double agent.
Bob Sharkey is given charge of a group of American espionage candidates. However, he is informed by his boss Charles Gibson that one of his students is a German Abwehr agent. He accepts the challenge of identifying him. He correctly chooses the student, who is using the alias of Bill O'Connell. Gibson reveals that O'Connell is actually Wilhelm Kuncel, one of Germany's top spies. His mission is to determine the date and location of the Allied invasion of Europe. They assign O'Connell a job in London that gives him full access to false information about "Plan B", the invasion of Germany through the lowlands, hoping that he will pass on the misleading information to his superiors.
At the end of their training, three of the new agents—Frenchwoman Suzanne de Beaumont, American Jeff Lassiter and Kuncel—are sent to Britain, where they prepare to fly into German-occupied territory. O'Connell / Kuncel is given a mission in Holland, supposedly because of his familiarity with the region. Lassiter is assigned to kidnap the French collaborator Duclois and bring him to England; Duclois designed and built the main assembly and supply depot for V-2 rockets that will be used against the key Allied invasion port of Southampton, and what he knows would be vital for achieving its destruction. De Beaumont goes along as Lassiter's radio operator. Sharkey tells Lassiter about O'Connell / Kuncel and orders him to kill Kuncel if he suspects that Kuncel has not been deceived. However, on the airplane, Lassiter cannot conceal his uneasiness from Kuncel, who realizes Lassiter suspects him and sabotages Lassiter's parachute, causing him to fall to his death. Gibson and Sharkey conclude that Kuncel now knows that the information that he was given is false.
With no time to brief another agent, Sharkey volunteers to take Lassiter's place. Gibson is reluctant to do so, as Sharkey knows the true date and location of the invasion, but finally agrees. With the help of the local French resistance led by the town's mayor, Sharkey takes Duclois prisoner. However, in stopping Kuncel from interfering with the airplane departing with Duclois, Sharkey is captured. De Beaumont is killed while transmitting the news to England. Kuncel takes Sharkey to Gestapo headquarters at 13 Rue Madeleine in Le Havre and supervises his torture when Sharkey refuses to talk. Back in Britain, Gibson has no choice but to order a bombing raid to destroy the building before Sharkey cracks. When the bombing starts, Sharkey laughs in triumph in Kuncel's face.
Prohibited from mentioning the OSS in films during the war, several Hollywood studios produced films about the agency after the war, such as O.S.S. (Paramount), Cloak and Dagger (Warner Bros./United States Pictures) and Notorious (RKO), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Although 13 Rue Madeleine was originally written to showcase the O.S.S., with Cagney playing a character based on William Donovan and featuring Peter Ortiz as a technical advisor, Donovan raised major objections to the film, including the idea that his agency had been infiltrated by an enemy agent. The spy group was renamed "O77" and Cagney's character had no similarities to Donovan.
The film followed Fox's The House on 92nd Street, a true story of FBI counterespionage, which shared the same director, producer and one of the writers.
Later parts of the filming took place in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada[citation needed] while the earlier parts were filmed at Boston College, USA.
The Breen Office objected to the Americans bombing a building solely to kill Sharkey. However, Sy Bartlett, one of the film's scriptwriters, had served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and claimed that such an incident did indeed take place, although in a different context. According to director Henry Hathaway, that incident was the basis for the film's final scene.