room for her, Gina says she must stay behind to free her country from the Germans and begs Alvah to come back for her when the war is over. Cast Gary Cooper as Professor Alvah Jesper Robert Alda as Pinkie Lilli Palmer as Gina Vladimir Sokoloff as Polda J. Edward Bromberg as Trenk Marjorie Hoshelle as Ann Dawson Ludwig Stössel as The German Helene Thimig as Katerin Lodor Dan Seymour as Marsoli Marc Lawrence as Luigi James Flavin as Colonel Walsh Patrick O'Moore as The Englishman Charles Marsh as Erich Missing final reel As planned by Lang, the film had a different ending. Jesper (Cooper) leads a group of American paratroopers into Germany to discover the remains of an underground factory, the bodies of dead concentration camp workers, and evidence the factory was working on nuclear weapons. Jesper remarks that the factory may have been relocated to Spain or Argentina and launched a diatribe saying: "This is the Year One of the Atomic Age and God help us if we think we can keep this secret from the World!" Producer Milton Sperling, who had frequently quarreled with Lang on the set, thought the final scene ridiculous, since the audience knew the Germans had no nuclear capacity. The film's screenwriters Lardner and Maltz became two of the Hollywood Ten, accused of adding communist dogma to movie scripts such as this one. Writing a script saying the US could not keep nuclear secrets from the USSR, such as in this film, was one of many accusations against the Ten. Radio show A 1950 NBC radio show of the same title based on Ford and MacBain's book lasted 26 episodes. Cloak and Dagger began with actor Raymond Edward Johnson asking "Are you willing to undertake a dangerous mission for the United States knowing in advance you may never return alive?" Box-office According to Warner Bros., records the film earned $2,580,000 domestically and $1,828,000 abroad. See also Cloak and dagger, the English language idiom Notes External links DVD Savant remarks on missing scenes Cloak and Dagger on Lux Radio Theater: May 3, 1948 1946 films 1940s spy films American spy films American black-and-white films Films directed by Fritz Lang Films scored by Max Steiner Warner Bros. films World War II spy films Films with screenplays by Ring Lardner Jr. Films about nuclear war and weapons Films set in Switzerland Films set in Italy Cultural