13 Rue Madeleine

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13 Rue Madeleine ★★★ 1946

Cagney plays a WWII spy who infiltrates Gestapo headquarters in Paris in order to find the location of a German missile site. Actual OSS footage is used in this fastpaced early postwar espionage propaganda piece. Rex Harrison rejected the part taken by Cagney. 95m/B VHS, DVD . James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore, Walter Abel, Sam Jaffe, Melville Cooper, E.G. Marshall, Karl Malden, Red Buttons, Blanche Yurka, Peter Von Zerneck, Marcel Rousseau, Dick Gordon, Alfred Linder; D: Henry Hathaway; W: Sy Bartlett, John Monks Jr.; C: Norbert Brodine; M: David Buttolph.