O.S.S. [Blu-ray]

Overview

Set during WWII, this taut and suspenseful espionage outing chronicles the courage of a brand new cadre of specially trained American O.S.S. agents. The agents parachute into France to destroy the vital Corbett Mallon tunnel to stop the German invaders from shipping supplies to their troops.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/10/2021
UPC:	0738329254810
Original Release:	1946
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:48:00
Sales rank:	26,978

Editorial Reviews

Done in the same vein as Fox's 13 Rue Madeleine, but in a somewhat more romantic and melodramatic manner, Irving Pichel's O.S.S. tries to tell the story of the Office of Strategic Services, the espionage arm of the federal government, which was a creation out of necessity for the prosecution of the Second World War. It's nicely paced overall and essentially breaks down into two sections, the opening in which we witness the training of a group of agents and get an account of what trainees have to unlearn to succeed -- and the second, in which Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald's characters become the focus of a specific plotline. Pichel does well enough with the material at hand, although one wishes that Frank Tuttle had been given this movie to direct, to see what kind of sharp little edges he would have brought to the material.