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Cloak and Dagger |
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"Are you willing to undertake a dangerous
mission for the United States, knowing in advance that you may never return
alive?" What you have just heard is a question asked
during the War, of agents of the O.S.S. Ordinary citizens who to this question
answered: Yes! Based on the 1945 book of
the same name by Colonel Corey Ford and Alistair MacBain, Cloak and Dagger was the story of the wartime activities of the O.S.S. - The Office of Strategic Service (forerunner of the CIA) - "this country's
first all-out effort in black warfare, dropping undercover operators behind
enemy lines, organising local resistance to blow up bridges and dynamite
tunnels, operating the best spy systems of Europe and Asia" A tense half hour anthology
series with patriots and traitors, love affairs doomed by war, triumph,
tragedy and failure - a gripping show with every story an unpredictable
departure from formula. The book also spawned two
1946 films, namely O.S.S. (with Alan
Ladd) and Cloak and Dagger (with Gary Cooper) - both of these films are available on DVD from
the Adventure, Drama & Film Noir section of this website. The two films were made
also dramatized for radio
via the Lux Radio Theatre - O.S.S.
with Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald recreating their film roles - Cloak and Dagger with Ronald Reagan (replacing Gary Copper) and Lilli Palmer duplicating her film role. Further in 1950, Alan Ladd
and Wanda Hendrix filmed Captain Carey, U.S.A. in which Ladd returns to Orta, near Milan, to find
out who betrayed his World War II O.S.S. team and caused the death of several
villagers. This film was also the subject of a Lux Radio Theatre dramatization in 1953 with Wanda Hendrix recreating
her film role but with Charlton Heston replacing Alan Ladd. Want
to check out an episode? - why not "taste & try"? This
episode can be freely downloaded to your computer - just right button click
on any link below and chose "Download Linked File" (or words to
that effect). The file is on an average about 18Mb - download time will
depend on your (broadband) speed CD_1950-06-04
The Brenner Pass Story.mp3 This MP3 CD contains
the entire run of 22 episodes of "Cloak and Dagger" as well three
60 minute Lux Theatre dramatizations: "O.S.S." (with Alan Ladd
& Geraldine Fitzgerald recreating their screen roles), "Cloak and
Dagger" (with Ronald Reagan & Lilli Palmer, the latter recreating
her screen role) and "Captain Carey, U.S.A." (with Charlton Heston
& Wanda Hendrix, the latter recreating her screen role) A. Cloak and Dagger 1.
CD_1950-05-07 File
2218.mp3 2.
CD_1950-05-28 The
Trojan Horse.mp3 3.
CD_1950-06-04 The
Brenner Pass Story.mp3 4.
CD_1950-06-11 The
People in the Pass Story.mp3 5.
CD_1950-06-18 The
Kachlin Story.mp3 6.
CD_1950-06-25 Direct
Line to Bombers.mp3 7.
CD_1950-07-02 The Eyes
of Buddah.mp3 8.
CD_1950-07-09 The
Trap.mp3 9.
CD_1950-07-23 The
Secret Box.mp3 10.
CD_1950-07-30 Swastika
on the Windmill.mp3 11.
CD_1950-08-06
Recommendation from Rommell.mp3 12.
CD_1950-08-13 The Roof
of the World.mp3 13.
CD_1950-08-20
Norwegian Incident.mp3 14.
CD_1950-08-27 The
Black Radio.mp3 15.
CD_1950-09-01 War of
Words.mp3 16.
CD_1950-09-08 Over
Ground Railroad.mp3 17.
CD_1950-09-15 Seeds of
Doubt.mp3 18.
CD_1950-09-22
Operation Sell Out.mp3 19.
CD_1950-09-29 The Last
Mission.mp3 20.
CD_1950-10-06 Delay on
Route.mp3 21.
CD_1950-10-15 Wine of
Freedom.mp3 22.
CD_1950-10-22
Windfall.mp3 B. The Lux Theatre
dramatizations 1.
LT_1946-11-18
O.S.S.mp3 2.
LT_1948-05-03 Cloak
and Dagger.mp3 3.
LT_1953-02-02 Captain
Carey, USA.mp3 |