A group of apple brandy... Remember, you are fighting for your country. Survive and win, that's your job.
The first intelligence service in the United States, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was established in June 1942. Its main task during the war was to collect and analyze information for special operations outside the United States. They also provided and trained resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied countries. OSS agents were people of various professions, possessing technical skills, knowledge in geography, languages, hand-to-hand combat.
Although the film was clearly created as a patriotic and military genre, this film reminded me more of noir. Black and white image, night, rain, disturbing atmosphere, and where without a beautiful woman and spies. But most importantly, Alan Ladd in his invariable gray coat, hat and with a gun in his hand, is no different from his own, familiar to us, characters from the cult “Weapons for Hire” or “Blue Dahlia”.
I don’t know why, but I liked this film even more than the one similar to it on the theme “Cloak and Dagger” by the famous Fritz Lang. Maybe it's all about the plot. After all, the screenwriter of the film Richard Maybaum (a veteran only returned from the war), later wrote the scripts for 12 parts of Bond. No wonder the characters of this film use different spy things, like a shooting pipe or a mini camera.
P.S. After 4 years, Richard Maybaum and Alan Ladd will make another joint film about the OSS “Captain Carey, USA”.
We will fight the enemy in foreign territory.
9 out of 10