13 Rue Madeleine (1947) | |
| Director(s) | Henry Hathaway |
| Producer(s) | Louis de Rochemont |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller/Suspense, War |
| Top Topics | Spies, World War II |
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13 Rue Madeleine (1947) was a Adventure - Action Film directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Louis de Rochemont.
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13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
By Beatrice on Mar 8, 2015 From Flickers in Time13 Rue Madeleine? Directed by Henry Hathaway Written by John Monks Jr. and Sy Bartlett 1947/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation First viewing/Netflix rental An enjoyable Fox film noir in the semi-documentary style about U.S. intelligence efforts in World War II. A voice-over narrator set... Read full article
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Quotes from 13 Rue Madeleine
Charles Gibson:
I don't want to send you.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: I've been working hard. I need the change.
Charles Gibson: You won't come back.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: [Gibson drops his eyes] I've just discovered something about you.
Charles Gibson: What?
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: You're a worrier.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: If he isn't sold and should in any way suspect that you're on a double mission, if he does make his break and tries to follow you, you're going to shoot him.
Jeff Lassiter: Shoot him?
Jeff Lassiter: [clearly disturbed by the thought] Tha-That's rough! Tha...
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: That's war... and that's your mission!
Jeff Lassiter: Yeah.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: O'Connell can do it. Can you?
Jeff Lassiter: Yeah, I can do it.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: That's all for now.
Jeff Lassiter: Right.
Mayor Galimard: There will be reprisals!
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Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: I've been working hard. I need the change.
Charles Gibson: You won't come back.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: [Gibson drops his eyes] I've just discovered something about you.
Charles Gibson: What?
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: You're a worrier.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: If he isn't sold and should in any way suspect that you're on a double mission, if he does make his break and tries to follow you, you're going to shoot him.
Jeff Lassiter: Shoot him?
Jeff Lassiter: [clearly disturbed by the thought] Tha-That's rough! Tha...
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: That's war... and that's your mission!
Jeff Lassiter: Yeah.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: O'Connell can do it. Can you?
Jeff Lassiter: Yeah, I can do it.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: That's all for now.
Jeff Lassiter: Right.
Mayor Galimard: There will be reprisals!
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Facts about 13 Rue Madeleine
James Cagney's character of Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey was originally based on the World War II director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), William Donovan (i.e. Major General William Joseph Donovan, USA, GCSS, KBE) as well as the spy agency being based on the O.S.S. Donovan objected to this, particularly the story element that the OSS had been infiltrated by an enemy German Nazi agent spy. Alas, the spy agency became the "077" and any of Cagney's character similarities with Donovan were removed.
The film's director, producer, and one of the writers had worked previously on another spy film for the same movie studio (20th Century Fox) called The House on 92nd Street (aka Now It Can Be Told (USA)). Interestingly, both films utilized street addresses as their film titles.
The relevance of an address as this film's title is that '13 Rue Madeleine' is the address of German Nazi Gestapo headquarters in Le Havre, France during the Nazi German occupation of France in World War II and this is where the spy mission takes this film's heroes.
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The film's director, producer, and one of the writers had worked previously on another spy film for the same movie studio (20th Century Fox) called The House on 92nd Street (aka Now It Can Be Told (USA)). Interestingly, both films utilized street addresses as their film titles.
The relevance of an address as this film's title is that '13 Rue Madeleine' is the address of German Nazi Gestapo headquarters in Le Havre, France during the Nazi German occupation of France in World War II and this is where the spy mission takes this film's heroes.
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