O.S.S.

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O.S.S. ★★★ 1946

John Martin (Ladd) has been recruited by Commander Brady (Knowles) as a would-be spy for the new Office of Strategic Services. Martin's teamed with Ellen Rogers (Fitzgerald) and they parachute into France with orders to obtain information on German troop movements and destroy an important railroad tunnel. A turncoat Gestapo agent sells them information but German colonel Meister (Hoyt) is after them and it's a race to see if their mission can be completed before they're caught. The O.S.S. allowed Paramount studio a look at their WWII files for story purposes and numerous ex-agents served as technical advisors. 108m/ B VHS . Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Richard Benedict, Gloria Saunders, Bobby Driscoll, Don Beddoe, Richard Webb, Gavin Muir, Onslow Stevens, Joseph Crehan, Leslie Denison; D: Irving Pichel; W: Richard Maibaum; C: Lionel Lindon; M: Daniele Amfitheatrof.

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