Gary Cooper does a good job in carrying along the suspense and makes it believable as someone who is NOT a spy, but someone who gets recruited as an important scientist to make sure that his country isn't the victim of his scientific knowledge fall into the wrong hands.
As for other user who used derogatory names just because they rhyme with the actor's name...it shows that a lack of critical thinking and logic exists in epic proportions in our day. The guy doesn't know how to critic a movie, so he resorts to name calling of an actor he doesn't realize was popular much earlier than Bogart and even was acting in the silent era (Gary Cooper).
I like Bogart too, but trying to compare this film with Casablanca is comparing apples with oranges. Casablanca was chiefly a love story set in a time between two people who didn't realize the woman's husband was still alive (he was reported dead and Bergman's character thought he was, found out differently and returned to her husband without time to explain to Bogart's 'Rick').
In this 'Cloak and Dagger', it is not a romance story, but rather the story of an ordinary guy who seeks to help his country in time of war despite great personal risk. Yes, it was not so unusual during that time period (this was the year after the end of WW2 that it was released), but it wasn't bad. It was quite good and an interesting look at the time period and genre.
To say it doesn't stack up against what was voted the number 1 movie of all time (Casablanca) doesn't make this a bad movie, it makes Casablanca a great movie!
As for other user who used derogatory names just because they rhyme with the actor's name...it shows that a lack of critical thinking and logic exists in epic proportions in our day. The guy doesn't know how to critic a movie, so he resorts to name calling of an actor he doesn't realize was popular much earlier than Bogart and even was acting in the silent era (Gary Cooper).
I like Bogart too, but trying to compare this film with Casablanca is comparing apples with oranges. Casablanca was chiefly a love story set in a time between two people who didn't realize the woman's husband was still alive (he was reported dead and Bergman's character thought he was, found out differently and returned to her husband without time to explain to Bogart's 'Rick').
In this 'Cloak and Dagger', it is not a romance story, but rather the story of an ordinary guy who seeks to help his country in time of war despite great personal risk. Yes, it was not so unusual during that time period (this was the year after the end of WW2 that it was released), but it wasn't bad. It was quite good and an interesting look at the time period and genre.
To say it doesn't stack up against what was voted the number 1 movie of all time (Casablanca) doesn't make this a bad movie, it makes Casablanca a great movie!