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.
Plot
Bob Sharkey is put in charge of the 77th 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 "Bill O'Connell". Gibson reveals that O'Connell is actually Wilhelm Kuncel, one of Germany's top spies. He tells Sharkey to pass him through the course, as they know his mission is to determine the date and location of Operation Overlord (the Allied invasion of Europe). They assign him a job in London that gives him full access to false information about "Plan B", the invasion of Germany through the Lowlands, hoping he will pass it along to his superiors.
More details
| author | John Cherry Monks, Jr. |
|---|---|
| director | Henry Hathaway |
| editor | Harmon Jones |
| events | World War II |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | abwehr allied allies of world war ii bomb build capture collaborationism collaborator end espionage french resistance great britain kill le havre new age operation overlord radio operator southampton train v-2 |
| musicBy | David Buttolph |
| producer | Louis de Rochemont |
| publisher | Twentieth Century Fox |
| theme | spy |